Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:53:11 +0300 From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: 'David Johnson' <djohnson@acuson.com> Subject: RE: RELEASE vs STABLE Message-ID: <D08F9E2FE307D411857300104B34F1A202D891@URANUS>
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> Is there any paticular pressing need to use -STABLE versus -RELEASE? I > followed the book last weekend and tried to upgrade from 4.0-STABLE to > 4.0-RELEASE, you mean from release to stable :) > and it cvsup'ed and built just fine. It would not install > however. There were several errors in creating links, trying > to install > non-existant files, etc. After about an hour trying get get it > installed, I gave up. > > At that time I figured it good enough to stick with -RELEASE. But now > I'm wondering if this is the proper attitude. So how important is > -STABLE? well, my (particular) opinion is that: if it works, why bother ?! If you use it for workstation (and I guess you do) and not for a real server, it will work just fine, and most probably you won't feel the difference. However, if your system crashed (and I never seen BSD crashed :), or you want to experiment, or you want to be up-to-date, you might may consider upgrade to stable. Stefan > > David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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