From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 01:32:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C855C16A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFAC43D2D for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:32:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTO00HLRQBP8J@smtp05.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:29:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1Q9S0ow023255; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:28:00 +0100 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1Q9Rw36023201; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:27:58 +0100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:27:58 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <403C244C.5040200@lanwest.com.au> To: Benjamin Meade Message-id: <20040226092758.GC887@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <20040224195231.56579.qmail@web13203.mail.yahoo.com> <403C244C.5040200@lanwest.com.au> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: "Jorge Mario G." cc: caio_sm@yahoo.com.br cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:32:53 -0000 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:27:56PM +0800, Benjamin Meade wrote: > Caio Souza Mendes wrote: > >Then, it wants to say that version 5.3 will not be > >stable and yes release? > > No, the RELENG tag indicates a stable build. The CURRENT tag is used for > non-stable (development) build. The CURRENT or STABLE tags have nothing to do with RELENG. Both CURRENT and STABLE are used for development. RELENG is just a snapshot with additional messarues to minimise the chance of anything going wrong. (RELEASE 5.0 was very much alfa, 5.1 was more like beta) To answer the orginal question 5.3 is likly going to be STABLE. I can not say this for certain. I currently run FreeBSD 5.2 with KDE without any major problems. The only problems I have are: shutting down with power down option and running vmware3 -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/