From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 15:34:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93F737B401 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB0443F93 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from torben@kappacorp.com) Received: from kappacorp.com (12-213-126-197.client.attbi.com[12.213.126.197](untrusted sender)) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2003072122343601400n9sqbe>; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:34:36 +0000 Message-ID: <3F1C67DC.3050206@kappacorp.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:23:24 -0800 From: Torben Brosten Organization: Kappa Corp. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Rio References: <20030721221840.GB58118@perpels.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_5 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:34:38 -0000 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" > >