From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 10:04:32 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 ED4CC16A41F for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:04:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from slackwarewolf@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [216.148.227.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F0643D46 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:04:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from slackwarewolf@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (pcp0011279654pcs.pthurn01.mi.comcast.net[69.246.87.201]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20051231100432014008hrgoe>; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:04:32 +0000 From: Allen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:01:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512310501.23670.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> 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 10:04:33 -0000 On Saturday 31 December 2005 04:59, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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. Ahhh the good ol days of the CSRG :) Come on man, how can you possibly be impressed that they do that? They made Free BSD, it takes a lot more to impress me now > > Cheers, > > Matthew -Allen