Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:09:52 +0100 From: "R. Hartman" <rhartman@xs4all.nl> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <001901c170c0$ce2ef460$9600000a@custcom> References: <005201c1706f$572afb80$6600000a@ach.domain> <20011119124150.R16195@monorchid.lemis.com> <005901c170a2$1cd5efc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200111182159.11756@starbreaker.net> <20011119135936.S16195@monorchid.lemis.com>
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From the explanation below of STABLE it seems to me that this branch is less reliable than RELEASE regardless of the fact that it includes bug fixes. Especially the last two lines suggest to me that Matthew Graybosch was right. From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html: 19.2.2.1 What Is FreeBSD-STABLE? FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with the general assumption that they have first gone into FreeBSD-CURRENT first for testing. This is still a development branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular purpose. It is simply another engineering development track, not a resource for end-users. Regards, Ronald Hartman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Matthew Graybosch" <matthew@starbreaker.net> Cc: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 04:29 Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night > On Sunday, 18 November 2001 at 22:02:30 -0500, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > On Sunday 18 November 2001 21:30, you wrote: > >> Okay, I'm not very clear on all these different versions of the > >> OS, and my snooping around the FreeBSD site did not greatly > >> enlighten me. > >> > >> Which version of the OS is the version that would be distributed, > >> say, on boxed CDs, like the version I initially bought at the > >> store? I presume from what I've read that -CURRENT is more > >> volatile than STABLE; how do both of these relate to RELEASE (if > >> there is such a thing--my system mentions RELEASE on the > >> screensaver). > > > > - -RELEASE is the FreeBSD you get on packaged CDs. You could probably > > download ISOs of -STABLE and possibly -CURRENT, but those branches > > don't get packaged and sold. > > > > - -CURRENT is the development version of FreeBSD. Use if it you're a > > hacker or like to live on the edge. > > > > - -STABLE is the testing version, similar to Linux-Mandrake's "Cooker" > > distro. You'd use if if you absolutely can't wait for the next > > official release. > > No, as the name suggests, -STABLE is the most stable version. It's > -RELEASE with bug fixes. > > > - -RELEASE is the branch considered "suitable for use in production > > environments" -- mission-critical servers, etc. > > No, as the name suggests, -RELEASE is the version which gets released > on CD-ROMs. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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