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From: Christopher San Diego <toppy@toppy.port5.com>
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Subject: Updating FreeBSD
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I'm a confused newbie whose been (re)installing FreeBSD 5.3 Release
for the past week or two.

I've read the handbook and various other documents concerning updating
FreeBSD only to learn that -STABLE and -CURRENT are both development
branches.

I've decided to stick with -RELEASE. Given this, is there anything I
need to update? Does this also mean my next update will be when
5.4-RELEASE comes out?

Thanks.