From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 13:18:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25597 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:18:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nexus.astro.psu.edu (nexus.astro.psu.edu [128.118.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25537 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@astro.psu.edu) Received: from mstar.astro.psu.edu by nexus.astro.psu.edu (4.1/Nexus-1.3) id AA01306; Thu, 23 Jul 98 16:17:16 EDT Received: by mstar.astro.psu.edu (SMI-8.6/Client-1.3) id QAA14249; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:17:11 -0400 Message-Id: <19980723161710.A14217@astro.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:17:10 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: CVSUPing the 2.2.7 Source Mail-Followup-To: wwoods@cybcon.com, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <19980723150404.C12637@astro.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from William Woods on Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:09:04PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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