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Subject: Re: a few questions and concepts
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On Saturday 08 April 2006 05:16, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> Leading source code committers are typically always working on the
> Next Big Thing(tm), which is known as -HEAD in CVS, and often called
> (and officially, even, called) -CURRENT in FreeBSD.  Most users, though,
> are using the Last Big Thing(tm), known as -STABLE.

That sounds a bit unlikely, I would have thought most people would use a 
security branch like  RELENG_6_0. Nothing else is rcommended for production 
use.