From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 14 13: 8:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F245E37B742 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:08:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA02261; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:07:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-82.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.82) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma002259; Tue Mar 14 15:07:44 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000314144112.00ba3180@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:05:20 -0600 To: , "Sumbry][" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Jordon Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:28 PM 3/14/00 -0500, up@3.am replied to: >On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Sumbry][ wrote: > > > From my understanding it's already happened, cept that it's a RELEASE > > version, and not stable. > >Then why does the website still advertise 3.4 with virtually no mention of >4.0 on the Walnut Creek home page? I just placed an order for 4.0; but >it's on backorder with no ETA. Patience. The elves are still working on it, which you *should* know if you were tracking current and CVS. > > I've always run STABLE on my production servers, but what are the > > drawbacks to running a RELEASE? > >AFAIK, RELEASE is just a snapshot of STABLE. IOW, STABLE is the most >up-to-date version of the release, and hence isn't available on CDROM. In general I start with the latest release and then cvsup to the -stable version. Doing fresh, binary updates ensures that no cruft is left around from prior releases. Makes for smaller cvsup logs to scan if there is a problem. With a spare server or drive upgrades are a swap away. Releases do not have any of the latest fixes or improvements. Generally after a release is cut there are fixes to minor problems during 2 weeks after, which is my opinion based on past experience. So far 4.0 has been rather unique with a longer feature freeze and is undergoing more polishing before the CD is sent to production. Wonder if the ISO is going to be available for a day or three before being sent off. Would be nice to see that the ISO and FTP files are the same, which of course means that nothing managed to sneak by and Jordan met his goal. 8^) Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message