From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 8: 9: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tornado.hboss.net (hboss.net [216.250.97.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE19337B40B for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by tornado.hboss.net (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f8DFAWh09656 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:10:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from webmaster@hboss.net) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Stable vs. Release Message-ID: <1000393832.3ba0cc6869af3@www.hboss.net> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:10:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Al Kwan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 216.250.96.96 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello everyone, All this talk about 4.4-Release, 4.3-Release, 4.2-Stable has got me wondering. I've read all the documentation on Current vs. Stable and so forth, but what I am confused about is this: Some people say that Stable is the way to go as it's made as "stable" as possible through testing of current/release versions. However when I read the info on freebsd.org, it says (http://www.ca.freebsd.org/handbook/current- stable.html): "..and it is particularly important that you do not update any production servers to FreeBSD-STABLE without first thoroughly testing the code in your development environment. If you do not have the resources to do this then we recommend that you run the most recent release of FreeBSD, and use the binary update mechanism to move from release to release." So I'm curious to get your opinions on FBSD and "production-only" servers. What version # and stable/release do you tend to use? Thx, Al To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message