From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 14:14:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02737 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02725 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA32657; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:20:27 -0600 (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:20:27 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Evren Yurtesen cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 = current ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > hello > I thought 3.0 version is not still a snapshot and it had been > released so it is stable enough for using...am I wrong? Yes, to a point. The -STABLE branch of development (currently at version 2.2.8) is the really stable one, hence the name. > so why is it still called current? Because that's exactly what it is, bleeding-edge current :) It's not meant to be used on production machines, or any machine you're not particularly prepared to have crash on you once in a while. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message