From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 17:54:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE12B150F4 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from pandora.home (jgl.reno.nv.us [207.228.2.142]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29624; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by pandora.home (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id RAA24878; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <003101be66ab$178e6000$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Riccardo Veraldi" , Subject: Re: 3.0-STABLE vs 3.1-STABLE Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:54:21 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Riccardo Veraldi >Hello I had 3.0-RELEASE >so I upgraded to 3.0-STABLE > >I Wanted to know whta is the difference between 3.0-STABLE And 3.1-STABLE >and if it;s worth to recompile all installign 3.1-STABLE or if it is >better waiting 1 year to ahve 4.0 If you use CVSup to track the -STABLE sources, after your next 'make world' you'll be at 3.1-STABLE. Here are some sites to check out: Staying stable: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook269.html#589 Make World help: http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html Rebuilding the kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook50.html#128 Tracking -STABLE is not nearly as complicated as it at first seems. Good luck, --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message