From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 23:45:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4676237B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:45:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA87200; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:41:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Tadimeti, Kesav" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: how to verify a stable release? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Tadimeti, Kesav wrote: > Folks, > Not sure if I am addresing the right forum. > I had installed Version 4.3 of FreeBSD. I did a (Beginner) Recomended > installation from a CDROM borrowed from a friend. A Standard installation, probably. > Q: What is a STABLE version compared to a "non-stable version"? The 4.x branch is at the present time the -stable branch. 4.3-RELEASE is part of the stable branch. > Q: How do I find out whether it is a STABLE version? uname -a is the standard UNIX commands for determining the OS and release version on a computer. If it says 4.3-RELEASE or 4.3-STABLE or 4.4-RELEASE or 4.4-STABLE it's part of the -stable branch. The experimental, developmental branch is called -current. > Q: What is a build World? A buildworld is a rebuilding of the system from source code. Also how are packages distributed in FreeBSD ( > compared to RPM in Linux)? There's a base system; in addition there are about 6,000 third-party software applications installable as packages (binaries already built) or ports, where the code is downloaded and built on your own system. > Q: Is CORBA supported in FreeBSD? There's a variety of stuff relating to CORBA you can find in /usr/ports with the command make search key=CORBA But basically all this is in the Handbook, which should be on your hard drive. See /etc/motd (which will come up when you boot)--lots of info there. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message