From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 13 14:55:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA01230 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01216 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id XAA13669; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:45:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA19647; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:24:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970813232421.64635@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:24:21 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of 2.2.X vs 3.0 trees????? References: <9708131848.AA106278@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <9708131848.AA106278@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu>; from rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu on Wed, Aug 13, 1997 at 02:47:56PM -0400 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 13, 1997 at 02:47:56PM -0400, rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu wrote: > I am considering an installation of either 2.2.2xxxx----->> RELENG > tree, or the 3.0-current tree. It really does not make a lot of > difference to me which to use, BUT, I am interested in the tree that > will be around for a while. Both trees seem to be moving along. You seem to be mainly an end-user, who wants a stable running system. Then Iīd suggest you run FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE. Go and install FreeBSD-2.2.2 and the get the latest updates via cvsup, this results then in a 2.2-STABLE system. -current is mainly for OS and ports developers only. > I understand the 3.0 tree has the better code? YES/NO? FreeBSD-current has very experimental code in it. Itīs questionable if itīs always "better code". From time to time tested code from 3.0-current, that might be useful for 2.2 is merged into the 2.2-STABLE tree. I think you should stay with 2.2-STABLE. -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html