From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 10 10:17:53 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 7E17E37B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe15.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.148.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E56E43E42 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian_li@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:17:50 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [12.236.66.209] From: "Brian Li" To: "Kevin Golding" Cc: References: <019d01c23fd7$2d44d740$272fa8ce@jim> <01c101c23fd8$78b4b5f0$272fa8ce@jim> <3D54162F.1000502@xmission.com> <3D541E31.C8A0EB52@pantherdragon.org> Subject: Re: Using CVSup Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:17:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Aug 2002 17:17:50.0056 (UTC) FILETIME=[DA87BE80:01C24091] 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 Does it mean that I should use "Stable" in production environement rather than using "Release" version? Thanks for the suggestion in advance. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Golding" To: "Brian Li" Cc: Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:23 PM Subject: Re: Using CVSup > 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