From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 08:15:09 2003 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 3BDDE16A4CF for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:15:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from imhotep.yuckfou.org (cust.89.117.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.89.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB39C43FDF for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nivo+sender+6075ff@yuckfou.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imhotep.yuckfou.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2790FD7 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:15:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from imhotep.yuckfou.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imhotep.yuckfou.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78853-08 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:15:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by imhotep.yuckfou.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6B3CCF; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:15:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from yuckfou.org (turbata-xp [192.168.2.236]) by localhost.yuckfou.org (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:15:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FBE3A04.1030400@yuckfou.org> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:15:00 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030912 Thunderbird/0.3a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org References: <20031121112758.GA2960@athena.oekb.co.at> <20031121135155.GC81136@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031121152948.GB2960@athena.oekb.co.at> In-Reply-To: <20031121152948.GB2960@athena.oekb.co.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Nils Vogels X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.88 (Decidedly) X-TMDA-Fingerprint: FeZ6OL1lSluungTBSGU6oo24qeA X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at yuckfou.org Subject: Re: Staying current with 4.9 - which supfile? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nils Vogels List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:15:09 -0000 a@jenisch.at wrote: >But how - if at all - does "CURRENT" come in? Or does "CURRENT" wrt my >installed 4.9 only relate to 5.x? > > > CURRENT is the development version of FreeBSD, basically for developers only, those who want to test the finest and newest options, and do not fear a complete systems failure from time to time (CURRENT does not always compile, and when it compiles, it may be unstable) CURRENT is only in 5.x present, since 4.x is a stable branch by now. Sometimes really nifty features from CURRENT are migrated into STABLE (and thus eventually in RELEASE) after careful testing. HTH & HAND