From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 3:22:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F5737BA37; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 03:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA20288; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 03:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 03:22:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Warner Losh Cc: kmays , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use 4.0-STABLE or 5.0-CURRENT? In-Reply-To: <200006290445.WAA61759@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <00ad01bfe180$8ca74860$b8f11e3f@KenMays> "kmays" writes: > : Question #1: Should be use v4.0-STABLE for production and > : 5.0-20000625-CURRENT for new development/testing?? > > Yes. -current is about to get ugly soon. June 25 is as good/bad as > anything. ..but since you're a new user, you shouldn't use -current. You're expected to know what you're doing and how to repair your own system when it goes bad. Sorry to be blunt, but newbies aren't welcome in -current, for their own safety and our sanity :-) Stick to 4.0-release or -stable and enjoy :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message