Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:42:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: "R. Hartman" <rhartman@xs4all.nl>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <20011120094247.L84417@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <00c201c170c5$d4222400$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <005201c1706f$572afb80$6600000a@ach.domain> <20011119124150.R16195@monorchid.lemis.com> <005901c170a2$1cd5efc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200111182159.11756@starbreaker.net> <20011119135936.S16195@monorchid.lemis.com> <001901c170c0$ce2ef460$9600000a@custcom> <00c201c170c5$d4222400$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Monday, 19 November 2001 at 7:45:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > On Monday, November 19, 2001 07:09, R. Hartman <rhartman@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> From the explanation below of STABLE it seems to me that this branch is less >> reliable than RELEASE regardless of the fact that it includes bug fixes. >> Especially the last two lines suggest to me that Matthew Graybosch was right. >> >> From >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html: >> >> 19.2.2.1 What Is FreeBSD-STABLE? >> FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases >> are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and >> with the general assumption that they have first gone into >> FreeBSD-CURRENT first for testing. This is still a development >> branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources >> for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular >> purpose. It is simply another engineering development track, not a >> resource for end-users. > > It would seem, then, that I'm best off just sticking with RELEASE, no? No. The text is wrong. It's as I said before: -STABLE is the stable version, -RELEASE is the released version. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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