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Subject: -CURRENT, -STABLE and -RELEASE.
From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com>
Date: 19 May 2001 14:16:01 -0700
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Long ago (2.2-RELEASE, I think), I was informed by someone who shall remain
nameless but who should have been more knowledgable than I that the branches of
FreeBSD went something like this:

	-CURRENT:	Bleeding edge, active source tree, experimental.
	-RELEASE:	The current running version, gets frequent bugfixes and
			so on; this is the one that most people use.
	-STABLE:	A ploddingly updated source tree, only incorporating
			minimal bugfixes, since stability was paramount.

So I always just skimmed over that portion of the website, and used -RELEASE,
because I wanted the latest and greatest without the instability of -CURRENT.
And perhaps I shouldn't have, because from what this seems to say is that:

	-CURRENT:	Bleeding edge, active source tree, experimental.
	-STABLE:	The current running version, gets frequent bugfixes and
			so on; this is the one that most people use.
	-RELEASE:	A snapshot of a solidly running -STABLE source tree,
			only incorporating minimal bugfixes between releases.

Should I be tracking -STABLE instead?  In other words, is -STABLE more or less
paranoid than -RELEASE?

A little embarrassing asking this question, but. . . .

							---Ken

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