From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 16:46:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0589C1531A for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:46:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk ([194.222.242.30]) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 127pQl-000EGk-0X for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:45:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 33966 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Jan 2000 00:43:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:43:38 +0000 From: George Cox To: "Charles F. Dillon" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Message-ID: <20000111004338.D33776@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <20000110202506.15004.qmail@web210.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <20000110202506.15004.qmail@web210.mail.yahoo.com>; from charlesdillon@yahoo.com on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:25:06PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10/01 12:25, Charles F. Dillon wrote: > I have recently installed 3.3Stable and noticed that 3.4Stable is now > available. How necessary is it update from 3.3 until, say, 4.0?( Save for > must have feature :)) OK. There are two streams in FreeBSD. There's -STABLE which is what most people follow. This is, as its name implies, the one to go for if you want "Rock Stable Performance!" (tm). 4.0 is the -CURRENT stream which is where developers fear to tread. You want the 3.4-STABLE one. Actually, you more than likely installed 3.3-RELEASE, which is just a snapshot of the development of 3.x-STABLE. > I use the machine as a single user desktop machine. Is seting up CTM worth > it? Absolutely. I use cvsup myself, but getting a method of keeping up to date with the branch you're following is a good idea. > I plan to at some point, but I was curious if I could get away w/ > version updates via CD(ISO-9660 images) until then. Sure, but cvsup is good fun! best; gjvc -- [gjvc] 4.4BSD 4.ever! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message