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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr>
Cc: chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?
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Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> wrote:
> It sure is misleading. Why is it called -stable then? You would expect
> to stand up to its name.

I think the name "STABLE" comes from stability in terms of the API and
ABI, not stability as reliability.  That seems to be a much more
reasonable goal--not to say that reliability shouldn't be goal, but
that a development branch as -STABLE is should be expected to be
unreliable at times (this has been mentioned before).  The API and ABI
in -STABLE are actually stable, unlike in -CURRENT . . .

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