Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:32 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Duda <element@email.cz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help me Message-ID: <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> References: <d7313d210512301313o4b0b0c1ex1f395570ff819f8f@mail.gmail.com> <dp4cjr$v2b$1@sea.gmane.org> <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel A. wrote:
> On 12/30/05, Pavel Duda <element@email.cz> wrote:
>>In short :
>>release - is something you want for your production system
>>stable - is something you can use too without much worry - it should be
>>"stable" right ? :-)
>>current - is for brave people who like to spend nights to figure out
>>what the hell is going on with their system and fight with all those
>>mysterious kernel panics..
> Isn't "stable" supposed to mean that it's "feature-stable", as in
> "We've discontinued implementing new features to this kernel, and are
> fixing bugs"?
Not in FreeBSD it isn't. You want 'Release' for that. 'Stable' is a
development branch -- for code that has been well tested in the current
branch and which is therefore something that could go into a release
candidate. It's called 'Stable' for historical reasons and because systems
with that tag run stably -- which is a pretty damn impressive achievement
for a code branch that can see extensive modifications to whole subsystems
of the kernel.
Cheers,
Matthew
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