From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 13 19:47:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6B237B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143CD43EB7 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from BAPhD (dialup-2.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.131]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9E2lQL19035; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:17:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: David Lloyd , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.7-Release Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:19:08 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3DAA2314.5E8974F@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3DAA2314.5E8974F@adam.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210141219.08336.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 14 October 2002 11:21, David Lloyd wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE set of CD's. That's what it calls itself. > Now I understand that this is a "real" [i.e. not a candidate] release > from the STABLE branch...but I'm confused as usual. Why didn't you ask someone near you who uses FreeBSD? :-) The answer is a FAQ and isn't difficult. Stable is -well - stable. However there are one or two more things people want to do/check before releasing a full new version which will be called by the magic name Release. Some people like to "track" stable, knowing that they have the latest, greatest, most secure but still stable system at all times. Current is the development forerunner to stable. Some people like to track this, but NOT in a mission-critical environment. :-) HTH -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message