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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:44:45 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: Noob question ....
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

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> As a card-carrying noob to FreeBSD, I have a question .... Recent posts have 
> referred to version 9.3-STABLE of FreeBSD .... My uname output appears below, 
> obviously labeled RELEASE, not STABLE .... How do I 'upgrade' from 
> 9.3-RELEASE to 9.3-STABLE ?

Here is my article on that:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/stable.html