Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:34:44 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware Message-ID: <200407211134.44903.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <40FEA5CC.6080508@mykitchentable.net> References: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F524041F765A@exch4.elcsb.net> <40FEA5CC.6080508@mykitchentable.net>
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On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:20 am, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote: > On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: > >FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - "CURRENT", "STABLE", and > >"RELEASE". In order of increasing stability, they are: > > > >"CURRENT" = currently in development (Alpha) and by far the least stable > >of the 3 > > > >"RELEASE" = released to the populous at large (Beta) and fairly stable > >but may have some issues > > > >"STABLE" = well, just that, stable and the production release of the OS > > You've got STABLE and RELEASE mixed-up. STABLE is the beta and RELEASE > is production. A RELEASE is a snapshot in the STABLE branch that has > been tested and deemed ready for production. STABLE is usually "stable" > but is still a development branch and thus, beta. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht >ml Then why do I hear that 5.2.1-RELEASE is not ready to be called STABLE? Why would it be downgraded? Why have there been no STABLE 5.x branches? Or am I just confused? - jt
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