From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 20 15:31:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8E41065695 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:31:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412818FC73 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so258398ewy.36 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:31:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3R9bfwKwCWknxxD/M7qW3Pksjy/cp2WK0P9bak6YrJA=; b=Tlbtv4L7V0pMYHu5392WXRg5eEwPFjhDA1EbKLTaf6Wq5NDNbeREx0G4HvQyWZg97X 1DltwQglS3eOL8sg9FoLSVz1GDhPz/BVhZmDmiztAdzwHQKkzTA/wDBADlzw3f2FB2Vg 8iEGPiiZuwDpenh5B6NO+9eKHrzSr3noeiWaw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vD9fhlUzyE5ZtBOJ3FS4V5B3aOJNBrjJqlCoJ0PjUwKuX1VGomAEENTTZfxL1zzTH+ 5jCHPu/J0fDMKQogf6s05ggKso9LCBpmRt3LXQpKDFy4zLZybn5wOjcCbRdmTS0WkZE+ CcEop+RtYSZO0Ouo5XK2ik3++0DImmhqNWML0= Received: by 10.210.11.13 with SMTP id 13mr4180447ebk.52.1250782294255; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm622258eyh.16.2009.08.20.08.31.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:31:30 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090820163130.55f86ce1@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> <4A89CA18.7000506@toyon.com> <4A89D4F9.9020508@toyon.com> <20090818032736.4702f243@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:31:35 -0000 On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:05:27 -0500 Andrew Gould wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, RW wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:41:12 -0500 > > Andrew Gould wrote: > > > >> STABLE is what it sounds like. > > > > I don't think it is what it sounds like - STABLE branches are > > development branches with stable binary interfaces. It's the > > security branches that are intended for production use. > > > > From: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/index.html > > "During the lifetime of each major release, an individual branch may > also be termed STABLE. This indicates that the FreeBSD Project > believes that the branch is of sufficiently proven quality to be used > by a wide range of users. Right, sufficiently proven quality to be used by a wide range of users for beta testing. I'm not saying that the stable branches shouldn't be used for production use, just that it's inadvisable to use them without a clear understanding of the reason why.