From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 18: 8:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maloca.oca.org.br (maloca.oca.org.br [164.41.38.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C45237BA72 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:08:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by maloca.oca.org.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA15731 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 22:08:34 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 22:08:34 -0300 (EST) From: Paje da Oca To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD v3.5!!!!!!!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I must confess that it is not yet clear for me the status of the different versions of FreeBSD. For example, there are three `streams`, CURRENT, RELEASE and STABLE, and there are (now) at least three `main versions`, 3, 4 and 5. The more confusing issue for me is the existence of a STABLE version for 3, now 3.5, at the SAME TIME with a STABLE version for 4, shortly 4.1. On the other side, as several people wrote to this list, version 4 is not *THAT* stable. For example the IDE driver `ad` is incompatible with older machines. To summarize my doubts: - Is there any policy of backwards compatibility in the development of FreeBSD? - Having, as now, two `stable` versions, how to decide on which of them is more stable? Thanks for any light ... Leonardo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message