From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Nov 19 15:28:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3362437B401; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:28:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E2B43E6E; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:28:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gAJNS3j10440; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:28:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:28:03 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Wes Peters Cc: Bob Johnson , stable@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <20021119182803.L8853@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3DDA90CD.387D6C9A@softweyr.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.9-12smp i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters wrote: > > The FreeBSD documentation > > specifically recommended running -stable in a production > > environment. > > That was before the release branches were created. If the handbook > fails to recommend the most up-to-date branch now, it most definitely > should be corrected. Would you like to research this and write a > PR if necessary? The handbook does not say this and hasn't for quite a while. It in fact recommends *against* tracking -stable if you only want to track security fixes. I think it puts things quite accurately: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message