From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 0:34:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCF9337B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 00:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 53321 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Feb 2001 08:33:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:33:36 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Bruce Phillips Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I tell what release I have? Message-ID: <20010206103336.C52096@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <3A7FAC21.2FFB04A4@electricrodeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A7FAC21.2FFB04A4@electricrodeo.com>; from brucep@electricrodeo.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:47:45PM -0800 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message