From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 11:10:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7396B15695 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:09:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.154.181]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FMBX4F00.89R; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:12:15 -0700 Message-ID: <000c01bf4015$5d196720$b59ac5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "David von Stetten" , "Darren Wiebe" Cc: Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 09:07:03 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David... [YOU SAID...] |...and -stable is half-way between -current and -release, so to speak? |I mean, -releases are from the -stable branch, which keeps going after |every -release until the next -release, and so forth? | |Confused... :-) [NOW IT'S MY TURN.... ] Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but this is my understanding: -release = "the CD(s)"; -stable = "the CD(s)" + updates -current = "the CD(s)" + updates + experimental stuff The advise seems to be that newbies like me should stick to -release until we know our way around a bit better. later..........duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message