From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 13 00:36:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DC61065700 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:36:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49308FC0C for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:36:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2D0a6oW040599; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:36:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:36:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: John Hendy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20090312201752.A941@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <49B8498B.9080402@onetel.com> <87k56uvop2.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <49B9301E.30708@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: is there a laptop ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:36:08 -0000 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 ] -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]