From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 20 01:19:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21071 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:19:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA21066 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenry@grey.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au) Message-Id: <199810200819.BAA21066@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrading notes To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:18:29 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" In-Reply-To: <19981020174250.34448@welearn.com.au> from "Sue Blake" at Oct 20, 98 05:42:50 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I was recommending, only from what I've been told as a newbie, that in > general -RELEASE is what newbies should be looking at unless there's a > strong reason to do otherwise. It was only a guess. Now we have a > learned view that newbies should never deal with a -RELEASE but should > consider that their last option, after -STABLE and -CURRENT. -CURRENT ahead of -RELEASE? It seems obvious to me that the best release for a newbie is the one with the least amount of bugs, and the most documentation. If my understanding of -CURRENT is correct, it ranks last in both these areas. In fact, I seem to recall a chapter from the handbook titled: "Who needs FreeBSD-current?" Which states that the audience for -CURRENT is 1. Members of the FreeBSD group who are actively working on some part of the source tree and for whom keeping `current' is an absolute requirement. 2. Members of the FreeBSD group who are active testers, willing to spend time working through problems in order to ensure that FreeBSD-current remains as sane as possible. These are also people who wish to make topical suggestions on changes and the general direction of FreeBSD. 3. Peripheral members of the FreeBSD (or some other) group who merely wish to keep an eye on things and use the current sources for reference purposes (e.g. for reading, not running). These people also make the occasional comment or contribute code. Hardly seems newbie stuff to me! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message