Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:46:41 -0800 From: "Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENAEIKFAAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021119182803.L8853@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rahul Siddharthan > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:28 PM > To: Wes Peters > Cc: Bob Johnson; stable@FreeBSD.ORG; doc@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? > > > 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 That is precisly the point, in the past the handbook had a different defination of what constituded an acceptible use of -stable. Look at revision 1.35 of the file. You'll see that the defination has evolved, and not in a direction that implies greater stability, rather it has grown in a direction that implies less stability. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cut ting-edge/chapter.sgml?rev=1.35&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Who needs FreeBSD-stable? If you are a commercial user or someone who puts maximum stability of their FreeBSD system before all other concerns, you should consider tracking stable. This is especially true if you have installed the most recent release -RELEASE at the time of this writing) since the stable branch is effectively a bug-fix stream relative to the previous release. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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