From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 20:24:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from host2.hostmatters.com (host2.hostmatters.com [209.239.36.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0009937B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@cahostnet.com) Received: from laptop ([208.143.52.83]) by host2.hostmatters.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2G4ObI25834; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:24:37 -0500 Message-ID: <005001c0adce$fc4f5660$0d01a8c0@casystems.net> From: "Ben O." To: "Matthew Emmerton" , References: <003c01c0adcc$19c5c920$0d01a8c0@casystems.net> <019501c0adcf$ef6e4270$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:10:05 -0500 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the reply and sorry for being a pain but I'm just learning. Sending me to the correct place helps me to learn. I don't mind doing the hard work. So I understand that I'm OK. I will check the link. Where can I find the archive? Thx, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Ben O." ; Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:16 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA > > I just compiled my new kernel and after rebooting I got the 4.3-BETA. How > > did I get this? I cvsup yesterday using the RELENG_4. Is this what did > it? > > Is this OK for a newbie like myself to have? The stable branch will > > probably be best, how can I go back if I want to? > > Please, please, RTFM > (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/book.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE) or search the > archives (this has been answered twice in the last 5 hours on -stable, and > countless times on -stable and -questions over the past week.) > > -BETA is just -STABLE but in a "code freeze" state. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message