From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 20:46:19 2010 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 0BB5D1065693 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:46:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from mail.nagual.nl (cc535223-a.groni1.gr.home.nl [82.73.72.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D818FC1E for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.34] [192.168.11.34] by arwen (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 136F3E; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:48:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4C645D9A.3010307@nagual.nl> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 Subject: releases, branches,.. 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: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:46:19 -0000 My years of OpenSolaris made me forget the use of releases and branches. I'm not into too much compiling anymore. I want a stable, but also safe server. I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? What do I need to run if I want the lates and needed security patches? I do not want to update my system (at least as few times as possible) Which brach do I follow? I have the feeling that STABLE is too innovative(?)