From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 13:20:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26141 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cybcon.com (root@mail.cybcon.com [205.147.64.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26070 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:20:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from support1.cybcon.com (support1.cybcon.com [205.147.76.99]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA09179; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980723161710.A14217@astro.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: wwoods@cybcon.com From: William Woods To: Matthew Hunt Subject: Re: CVSUPing the 2.2.7 Source Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for this quick responce....I never cease to be amazed by the quick responces here.....This answered my question fully. On 23-Jul-98 Matthew Hunt wrote: > 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. ---------------------------------- William Woods --> FreeBSD 2.2.6 <-- Date: 23-Jul-98 Time: 13:17:43 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message