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On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:16:06 +0800
"CY Teng" <supertcy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> because i just begin to learning this os, i chose stable and later
> will switch to current after know it well.

In FreeBSD, stable means a development branch with stable binary
interfaces, you should probably be using RELENG_7_0, which is the 7.0
release plus security fixes. At this stage in the cycle, current is
really only for developers.