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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 10/15/14 18:44, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>

.... & the section defining STABLE provides much needed (for me) 
clarification :-) .... Thx, I think I will stay w/ RELEASE for now ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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