From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 3 08:08:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01261 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:08:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01250 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA12801; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:48:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:48:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Dima Sivachenko cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Most stable version In-Reply-To: <199902031503.SAA04272@diamond.gpad.ac.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dima Sivachenko wrote: > I am deciding what version of FreeBSD to install to my computer. If you can, wait a couple weeks and install 3.1-RELEASE. Otherwise, do a network installation of 3.0-STABLE. > I need the latest stable version. That would be 3.0-STABLE. It's only available for download at the moment. > So what is the difference between 2.2.8-RELEASE and 2.2.8-STABLE? 2.2.8-RELEASE is 2.2.8 as it was released on CD. 2.2.8-STABLE is 2.2.8-RELEASE with post-release bugfixes and additions. The 2.2 branch was recently EOLed. 3.X is the new stable branch. > Does 2.2.8-STABLE already have ELF support? Not built-in. Use 3.0-STABLE or later for that. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message