From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 18:58: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voicenet.com (mail12.voicenet.com [207.103.0.6]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5261E40B7 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:58:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7936 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2000 02:58:22 -0000 Received: from dialpool0648-pri.voicenet.com (HELO voicenet.com) (209.71.86.115) by mail12.voicenet.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2000 02:58:22 -0000 Message-ID: <389B91D8.81DAF843@voicenet.com> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:58:33 -0500 From: "Peter A. Schwenk" Organization: Schwenk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dannyman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: will 4.0-RELEASE be STABLE? References: <20000204160006.B10078@stumpy.dannyland.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG People were amply warned about 3.0, which was kinda buggy, so I would steer clear of 4.0 for production/important-to-be-up-all-the-time systems. Whether or not 4.0 gets the STABLE name upon release is something I don't know. dannyman wrote: > i remember once a wizened senior admin telling me that the 3.0-RELEASE wasn't > going to be STABLE, that .0 RELEASE is like an interim RELEASE and that it > takes up the STABLE flag at .1 or something. > > was this wizened senior admin a crack smoker citing some ancient, obsoleted > wisdom, or would it behove me to stick with 3.x for the initial 4.0-RELEASE? > > is this in a FAQ somewhere? > > thanks. > > -d > -- - Peter Schwenk - schwenk@voicenet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message