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To: David von Stetten <stetten@gi.alaska.edu>
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Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE
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The way that I understand it is as follows, Please note that I have been
known to be incorrect before... :-)  A release is what they put onto the
cd's updates to that become -stable.  -current is the bleeding edge, it
is always one number ahead. ie. when 4.0 release comes out it will
become -current 5.0.

Darren Wiebe
dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com

David von Stetten wrote:
> 
> Hello....
> 
> On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > Wishing exactly what I am...  You could probably update to current.  I
> > tried upgrading but I cannot get it to build, I guess that means that I
> > should not be running it yet...  I should tell you to go to -current
> > because the handbooks says NEVER to do it just for new toys... :-)  It
> > would take a bit of work to get it to work I think.  It could probably
> > be done in -stable, I don't know about 3.3 release though...
> I guess I'm not really sure about the differences between -release and
> -stable. I thought that -stable eventually gets -released, so that it's
> kinda the same... Well, I suppose I was wrong!
> 
> But I certainly don't want to get into running -current, sounds like too
> much of a mess.
> 
> So maybe I should just wait for 4.0-release.... What a shame.
> 
> CU, David
> 
> >
> > Just my .02
> >
> > Darren Wiebe
> > dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com
> >
> > David von Stetten wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello everybody....
> > >
> > > When I read a couple of days ago that the linux version of vmware now runs
> > > on FreeBSD I got all excited, but then I noticed that this was only the
> > > case for -current. I am using FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE, so I was wondering if
> > > there would be any way to get vmware to run on this version? Maybe by
> > > pgrading the linux emulator or something....
> > >
> > > Any comments on the subject would be highly appreciated! :-)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David
> > >
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