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From: David von Stetten <stetten@gi.alaska.edu>
Organization: Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin, Germany
To: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 20:41:02 +0100
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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
> > > >
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