From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 20:14:56 2004 Return-Path: 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 31A1C16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:14:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D647E43D49 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:14:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw1.codefab.com [199.103.21.225]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6LKEp7d027546; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:14:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200407211251.46229.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F524041F765A@exch4.elcsb.net> <200407211134.44903.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <8BD99AA9-DB4C-11D8-BD53-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <200407211251.46229.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9F9720A2-DB52-11D8-BD53-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:14:51 -0400 To: krinklyfig@spymac.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:14:56 -0000 On Jul 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: [ ... ] > OK, as I understand, the branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE. But I > often see > 4.10-STABLE recommended for production use. This is probably due to > what you > describe above. That's right, 4.10 is the latest -STABLE release. > What does RELEASE mean, as specifically as you can? RELEASE refers to a specific version of the system which has gone through the release engineering process described at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html > I'm using 5.2.1-RELEASE and am not planning on going 4.10-STABLE, as I > can't > due to hardware, and it's not a big deal as this isn't for production. > But > I'm curious ... is RELEASE supposed to be the *most* preferable > candidate for > someone considering a production OS, but just at this time, 5.x hasn't > settled down? End users are expected to install releases rather than daily snapshots from -STABLE or -CURRENT, yes. Releases are published as .iso images and resold by FreeBSD distributors on CDs. > If it had settled down, would would the most preferable > production snapshot in 5.x-STABLE be called RELEASE? If 5.x had settled down, 5.x would now be -STABLE, and the latest RELEASE of 5.x (currently 5.2.1) would be the "most preferable version" for end-users to run. > And is this not the case now because 5.x is taking longer than it > should, so RELEASE is there, even if perhaps it shouldn't be? Thats about what I feel, yes. My opinion is that the current level of effort to stabilize 5.x should have happened around the 5.0 to 5.1 transition, rather than now at the 5.2 to 5.3 transition. -- -Chuck