From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 17:19:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poontang.schulte.org (poontang.schulte.org [209.134.156.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA2237B417 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarmap.nospam.schulte.org (tarmap.schulte.org [209.134.156.198]) by poontang.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F190D1620; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:19:28 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020109191344.01d6c8e0@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 19:19:25 -0600 To: "Jim McIver" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: version freebsd In-Reply-To: <3C3C788F.2931.A9B2272@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 05:06 PM 1/9/2002 +00-07, Jim McIver wrote: >I'm confused about the versions of freebsd. It's confusing for many at first. The documentation is designed to answer all of your questions, but sometimes a few helpful pointers can get you rolling. >I've read quite a bit about freebsd-current and freebsd-stable, but >uname -v show's I have freebsd 4.4 -RELEASE #0. You're running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, possibly installed from a CD. >Where does the RELEASE version fit in the mix of the other two >versions, and if I want to run the most reliable version of 4.4, which >should I have? Release is a snapshot of stable written to a cd and distributed for others to install from. Stable is what the source tree is called between releases. Current is the development branch. Take a look at the faq, chapter 1, 1.7 - 1.9. This explains it in greater detail. >If I should be running something different than what I have, can >anyone supply a link to the easiest way to change? I usually get lost >half way though reading about how to upgrade/change on the locations >I've read. The handbook, chapter 19 contains a lot of useful information. I suggest you read it completely. >thx, >- >Jim McIver --chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message