Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:17:10 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CVSUPing the 2.2.7 Source Message-ID: <19980723161710.A14217@astro.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980723120904.wwoods@cybcon.com>; from William Woods on Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:09:04PM -0700 References: <19980723150404.C12637@astro.psu.edu> <XFMail.980723120904.wwoods@cybcon.com>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:09:04PM -0700, William Woods wrote: > Ok, then, in your opinion, what should I get, Release or stable? Which is > preferable? Right now, they are practically the same. As time goes by, -stable will diverge from 2.2.7-RELEASE, and eventually become 2.2.8-RELEASE. As FreeBSD developers, we prefer to make our product better than to damage it. So the changes we incorporate into -stable should, on the whole, make it a better product with more features and fewer bugs. Every now and then, we screw up, and make a change for the worse. You should choose 2.2.7-RELEASE if you want a known quantity. Any bugs found in it sould be documented in the ERRATA.TXT files that's on ftp.freebsd.org. But if you choose -STABLE (especially a -STABLE that comes from a longer time since a -RELEASE) then you will get a product that should generally have more features and fewer bugs, but possibly a new quirk or two that wasn't in 2.2.7-RELEASE. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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