From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 7:15:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sullivan.realtime.net (sullivan.realtime.net [205.238.128.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E695D37B8BB for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 07:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucegb@sullivan.realtime.net) Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by sullivan.realtime.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA61636 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2000 09:15:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brucegb) From: Bruce Burden Message-Id: <200005231415.JAA61636@sullivan.realtime.net> Subject: Re: Help on vresion numbers... To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Frebsd Questions) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:15:34 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I would like to know which of the FreeBSD 4.x line of releases are stable > and good to use. > I find 4.0 to be quite stable. And, there is only 4.0 at the moment for the 4.x branch. > > I need to know which version is safe to use to develop a > commercial device driver. > If you are really that worried, you might want to look at the 3.4 release. It was released about the same time as the 4.0 branch, so has many of the same features. However, the 3.x branch has been around for a while. What you probably do not want to do is work with 5.0, or what is referred to as -current. 5.0 is the "bleeding edge", and stability is not a guarantee. :-) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message