From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 09:59:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C90A216A41F for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.187.76.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE9C43D45 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBV9xcJM098752; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:39 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:32 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051221) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel A." References: <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBC459ACBA8C166A754FDF243" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:39 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Pavel Duda , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help me X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:51 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBC459ACBA8C166A754FDF243 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Daniel A. wrote: > On 12/30/05, Pavel Duda 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigBC459ACBA8C166A754FDF243 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtlaK8Mjk52CukIwRA83fAJ9ZxsS5RZ/WokAhIQldAr9dqESquACdGpaW BHIqrrpKJ85Lmcl8/AR8rCc= =D/y/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBC459ACBA8C166A754FDF243--