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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:36:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: is there a laptop ?
Message-ID:  <20090312201752.A941@tripel.monochrome.org>
In-Reply-To: <a037f7360903120916g535c0eaes8407d817cca803f8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Hendy wrote:

> I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could 
> very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people 
> doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is.

Since nobody else has chimed in... HEAD refers to the bleeding edge, aka 
CURRENT. It's what you get if you have

*default release=cvs tag=.

in your supfile when you update the system (not ports). It changes 
frequently. See 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html

[ Lengthy quote snipped 'cause this is OT anyway ]

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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