From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 22:17:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0261508F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:17:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.141]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA1FAF; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:17:05 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA48406; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:17:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36F701A5.5D0FBD50@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:17:26 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Larry Hawk Subject: RE: Which version should I download? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Mar-99 Larry Hawk wrote: > I'm relatively new to FreeBSD ( < 1 yr), and I thought I understood the > whole -stable & -release thing but I seem to have become re-confused > with the 3.1 release. Could someone please explain it to me? I've been > messing around with FreeBSD off and on since 2.2.5. Which version should > I download (i.e. 2.2.8-Release, 2.2.8-Stable, 3.1-Release, or > 3.1-Stable)? Please clear this up for a poor, lonesome, downtrodden > Windows NT Admin. (I'm trying to reform, honest...) Last year active development took place on 3.x (CURRENT) while 2.2.x was stabilized and RELEASEd. Last November, I think, marked the day that we RELEASEd 3.0 and was the end of the 2.2.x line in December/Junuary after releasing 2.2.8 and some STABLE things. Now, currently, active development takes place on 4.x (CURRENT) and the currently supported version (in words of providing features and bugfixes from 4.x back to 3.x) is 3.x. So get 3.1 and when ye feel confident with 3.1 and know how to cvsup I can recommend 3(.1)-STABLE. If ye can get STABLE from start, do that. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message