From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 09:41:41 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 3CC8616A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA3943F85 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:41:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD1B12CEBE; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:41:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (midgard [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80492-07; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:41:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from merlin.intranet (merlin.intranet [10.0.0.16]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with SMTP id BEB1F12CE6C; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:41:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:41:31 +0100 From: Benjamin Lutz To: Payne Message-Id: <20031205184131.73151431.benlutz@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <3FD0AE4B.7020207@magidesign.com> References: <3FD0AE4B.7020207@magidesign.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Fri__5_Dec_2003_18_41_31_+0100_dwyUsaG8kk1fN8cC" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at maxlor.mine.nu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version... 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: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:41:41 -0000 --Signature=_Fri__5_Dec_2003_18_41_31_+0100_dwyUsaG8kk1fN8cC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I am wondering why there was 4.9 release if the newest one it 5.1. > Whick is better I am currently on 5.1. It's a little confusing. Well > there be a 4.10 and 5.2 release at the same time? 4.9 is the stable production release, while 5.1 (and in a few weeks, 5.2) is the development release that will eventually become the stable release. FreeBSD 4 will be developed (well, maintained, since few new features are added to it at this time, mostly driver updates from what I've seen) until the development team thinks FreeBSD 5 at least as fast and rock solid as FreeBSD 4. This is planned to happen when FreeBSD 5.3 released; at that point, active development for FreeBSD 4 will halt. FreeBSD 5.1 is a development release. While it runs OK for most people, some architectural things are going to change with 5.2 and 5.3, and you're advised not to rely on it with your critical stuff, but use 4.9 instead. Hope this clears things up. Greetings Benjamin --Signature=_Fri__5_Dec_2003_18_41_31_+0100_dwyUsaG8kk1fN8cC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/0MNOgShs4qbRdeQRAka0AJ0d9nFeBCsuPoRLCcX+pH2afKyGcgCggN0r 6bLFzNmps1ZaltmzvnAgX8s= =/Dms -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Fri__5_Dec_2003_18_41_31_+0100_dwyUsaG8kk1fN8cC--