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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:46:21 -0500
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Word processor for 6.1
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0609050646p43cde0cdt656366e91e1fe7a0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200609051408.30090.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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On 9/5/06, RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:35, Erik Norgaard wrote:
>
> > In the standard-supfile for the base system you'd specify RELENG_6 which
> > means you'll get head of -STABLE, or if you are conservative RELENG_6_1
> > which means that you'll just get security patches to the 6.1 release.
>
> I do wish people wouldn't give inexperienced users the impresssion that
> running 6-stable (RELENG_6 ) is the norm - this is a development branch.
>

Unfortunately it does feel like the norm. My servers are running
6-STABLE because the hardware is not fully supported in 6.1-RELEASE. I
had the same problems when 6.0-RELEASE was rolled out. Maybe we should
cut 6.2 early? that or time are release dates so they match up with
Intel's chipset release dates.


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