Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:23:24 -0800 From: Torben Brosten <torben@kappacorp.com> To: David Rio <drio@perpels.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_5 ? Message-ID: <3F1C67DC.3050206@kappacorp.com> References: <20030721221840.GB58118@perpels.com>
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Hi David, You might want to look at the "FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE" page which discusses the differences between stable and current. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html cheers, Torben David Rio wrote: > Hi all: > > I have been using FreeBSD in production enviroments so I used FreeBSD 4.7 and 4.8. > Now, I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my laptop. > So I decided to keep track of the -RELEASE_5 (STABLE). But It seems that there is > not such a branch on the repository. > Reading diferent links at freebsd.org. It seems that there is only to branchs for > 5.1: > > -CURRENT > -RELENG_5_1 > > The first one, I think can be a very agresive for my intentions. The second one, > instead, will not modify my sources to improve the performace because it is a > patch branch. > > If I am not wrong with this, what will be the reason to install 5.1 instead 4.8? > I mean, 5.1 has more features but a worst performace that 4.8. On the other hand, > there is no -STABLE branch of 5.1 so the only way to keep you system up to date > is follow the -CURRENT branch which is a little agresive in my case. > > Thanks in advance. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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