From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 15:13: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B507337B419 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A7DE4786E1; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:42:47 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:42:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: "R. Hartman" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <20011120094247.L84417@monorchid.lemis.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$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00c201c170c5$d4222400$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 19 November 2001 at 7:45:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > On Monday, November 19, 2001 07:09, R. Hartman 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