From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 17 4:22: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C1037B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 04:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fw.aub.dk (fw.aub.dk [195.24.1.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00ACC43E65 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 04:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacob@aub.dk) Received: (qmail 6205 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Oct 2002 13:30:36 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:30:36 +0200 From: Jacob Atzen To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.7-Release Message-ID: <20021014133035.GA5694@morpheus.aub.dk> References: <3DAA2314.5E8974F@adam.com.au> <200210141219.08336.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210141219.08336.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:19:08PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > Why didn't you ask someone near you who uses FreeBSD? :-) > The answer is a FAQ and isn't difficult. > Stable is -well - stable. However there are one or two more things people > want to do/check before releasing a full new version which will be called by > the magic name Release. Some people like to "track" stable, knowing that > they have the latest, greatest, most secure but still stable system at all > times. From 21.2.2.1 What Is FreeBSD-STABLE? "FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases are made..." And also: 21.2.2.2 Who Needs FreeBSD-STABLE? "For these reasons, we do not recommend that you blindly track FreeBSD-STABLE, and it is particularly important that you do not update any production servers to FreeBSD-STABLE without first thoroughly testing the code in your development environment." That would indicate to me that stable is stable, yet you would want to stick to the releases for production environments. So apparently there are different degrees of stable ;-) Hope this helps. - Jacob Atzen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message