From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 23:23: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deepthought.granfalloon.com (gat1-8158.rochester.rr.com [24.161.81.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C3137B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from caleb@localhost) by deepthought.granfalloon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id CAA18955; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:22:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:22:42 -0500 From: Caleb Land To: "Dib, Allan L" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT, STABLE, RELEASE, SNAPSHOT ??? Message-ID: <20001110022242.A18818@deepthought.granfalloon.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Dib.Allan.L@edumail.vic.gov.au on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:56:46PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:56:46PM +1100, Dib, Allan L wrote: > Hi all.. > > Can someone please explain to me what the deal is with all these various FreeBSD > versions/designations.. The FreeBSD codebase is a constantly expanding thing. There are two branches of development, "STABLE" and "CURRENT." When the stable branch gets good enough, they tag the source at a particular point, which is called "RELEASE," which is the official release which they use to make the CDROMs etc. "SNAPSHOT" is just that, the source code on a particular date from "CURRENT." "CURRENT" is where all of the newest, bleeding edge features go, which will eventually get merged into "STABLE" when they are stable. -- Sincerely, Caleb Land (bokonon@rochester.rr.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message