Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:33:36 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Bruce Phillips <brucep@electricrodeo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I tell what release I have? Message-ID: <20010206103336.C52096@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3A7FAC21.2FFB04A4@electricrodeo.com>; from brucep@electricrodeo.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:47:45PM -0800 References: <3A7FAC21.2FFB04A4@electricrodeo.com>
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On Mon 2001-02-05 (23:47), Bruce Phillips wrote:
> I sure it sounds dump, but i can tell what version of BSD , I just
> bought at frys. The disks are labeled as FreeBSD toolkit 5.0-current,
> June 2000.
That's the development branch (named -CURRENT).
> yet according to your web site. version 5.0 is'nt due for 2 months &
> your june 2000 release appears to be version 3.5?
That's the last (almost) release on the 3.x series production (-STABLE)
branch. It came out after FreeBSD 4.0, the first release on the 4.x
series production branch.
> what am I missing here?
It's not really hard to understand after it has been explained.
3.0 (production) --- 3.x --- 3.4 --- 3.5 (end of line)
\ (well-tested changes only) (security and bug fixes only)
\
\- (4.0 development) -------- 4.0-RELEASE (production) --- 4.1
(full-on development) \ (well-tested changes only)
\
\- (5.0 development)
(full-on development)
Or something like that.
Neil
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