From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 13:48:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CF116A4DD for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:48:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A386F43D46 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:48:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2269072wxd for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:48:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lCpkmycPSCtmpVp32+r/A3fYbqnQBIR0laYvIDwWQnkNfr6XxajGXTKU9LoPH9990ymecDzmK1z9oQz4HoylDuHR149lLbv1nP1gDtS+6oDNF8dFE1NdwcH+iXA9a3/9Eu2cuzQDnhOHJUeodofaa5NYzg9jNVFyzkZ0sLiwKjk= Received: by 10.70.38.19 with SMTP id l19mr7748391wxl; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:46:21 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: RW In-Reply-To: <200609051408.30090.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com> <10609042328.AA20234@pluto.rain.com> <44FD36C4.7090509@locolomo.org> <200609051408.30090.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 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: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:48:05 -0000 On 9/5/06, RW 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. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/