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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:40:55PM -0500, Matthew Tomsa wrote:
> What is the difference between RELEASE versions, STABLE versions, and
> CURRENT versions?

Please see the following:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/

mcl