From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 21:13:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4397837B40B for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-34-245.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.34.245]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA01568; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 05:13:43 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <013901c13f2f$0b7b5750$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "BSD Freak" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <44cea144ad3a.44ad3a44cea1@mbox.com.au> Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 05:12:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Please excuse my ignorance but I was just looking at ftp.freebsd.org in > the /pub/FreeBSD/branches directory. A couple of listed items are: > > -current > 4.0-stable > > > My questions are: > > 1) is 4.0-stable later than the 4.3-RELEASE CD? Yes, 4.x-STABLE represents the most recent code for the -STABLE branch. If this is your first install then I recommend, if you have a beefy internet connection, downloading the install floppies for 4.x-STABLE, popping them in, and letting that handle what to download for you as it installs. The other option is downloading the 4.3-RELEASE ISO and burning it to a CD (or wait a couple of days and download a 4.4-RELEASE ISO when that is available), which will be bootable provided your computer supports booting from a CD. This will take considerably longer to download as you're downloading a lot more data, but you will have the CD which is convienient later. If you are upgrading an existing install, then look at CVSup in the handbook at www.freebsd.org. > 2) is -current the 5.0 branch? Indeed, this is correct. -CURRENT is the development branch of FreeBSD working towards a release (whereupon 5.0 will become the main production -STABLE branch) in November 2002. > 3) is there a 5.0-stable branch? No, there is only one -STABLE branch at any time and it is currently tracking up to a 4.4-RELEASE in the next few days. I think the best advice on the -STABLE/-CURRENT thing for you would be forget -CURRENT, it's not what you want. Unless there is some really good reason why you need to run -CURRENT (and if you don't know that there is, then there isn't :) ), then don't. Hope this helps, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message