From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 9 23:24: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EEA37B401 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE5143E72 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17dPfG-0009DA-0U; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:23:54 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:23:47 +0100 To: Brian Li Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: Using CVSup References: <019d01c23fd7$2d44d740$272fa8ce@jim> <01c101c23fd8$78b4b5f0$272fa8ce@jim> <3D54162F.1000502@xmission.com> <3D541E31.C8A0EB52@pantherdragon.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Someone, quite probably Brian Li, once wrote: >I am new to FreeBSD. I am still confuse with the naming convention. Stable >should be more stable than regular release. Howvever, according to the >handbook, it seems like it is not the case. Then why call it stable? -stable is the stable development branch. Basically this means the FreeBSD team will go to extra lengths to avoid breaking things. The essential aspects of the OS are stable in that they won't make radical changes which are likely to cause anyone serious problems. Hence the configuration/development is stable. Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message