Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 20:41:02 +0100 From: David von Stetten <stetten@gi.alaska.edu> To: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <99120420472106.16897@goliath> References: <38484371.3C0B9794@heartland.ab.ca>
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On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: > 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. ...and -stable is half-way between -current and -release, so to speak? I mean, -releases are from the -stable branch, which keeps going after every -release until the next -release, and so forth? Confused... :-) CU, David > > 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 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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