From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 23:34:46 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 0074F16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:34:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.131.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F3143D1F for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:34:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: (qmail 913 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2004 23:34:44 -0000 Received: from 67-51-121-244.dsl1.elk.ca.frontiernet.net (HELO blacklamb.mykitchentable.net) ([67.51.121.244]) (envelope-sender )SMTP for ; 21 Jul 2004 23:34:44 -0000 Received: from [165.107.42.142] (unknown [165.107.42.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF7D3BF3D1; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40FEFD93.4070904@mykitchentable.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:34:43 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: krinklyfig@spymac.com References: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F524041F765A@exch4.elcsb.net> <40FEA5CC.6080508@mykitchentable.net> <200407211134.44903.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200407211134.44903.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:34:46 -0000 On 7/21/2004 11:34 AM Joshua Tinnin wrote: >On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:20 am, Drew Tomlinson >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? > > I know Charles Swiger has discussed this and pointed you to the release engineering doc but this might even simplify it further. A "RELEASE" is nothing more than a snapshot of the tree at a specific point in time. Thus a 4-STABLE release is a stable release and a 5-CURRENT is a current release. Therefore all of the CURRENT warnings apply to 5.2.1-RELEASE although it is much less likely to contain as many problems as just grabbing the most recent version of CURRENT. I know it's confusing. HTH, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com