From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 11:03:21 2010 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 9B2DA1065672 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 11:03:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33C08FC1C for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 11:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o56B3GI5080102 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:03:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C0B8074.8070004@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:03:16 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, PLING_QUERY,SPF_FAIL,TO_NO_BRKTS_DIRECT autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused) 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: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:03:21 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 11:27:19, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > > i was using gentoo linux and i have install FBSD 8.0 in my second machine.. > > i have read the handbooks but i cannot understand which version of FBSD i > have. > i mean i know that i have 8.0 but i have the stable or the unstable > version??? > and what is going on with the mirrors? Well, look at the output of 'uname -r' If it says '8.0-RELEASE' then you're running 8.0 release, straight from the install media. If it says '8.0-RELEASE-p3' then you're still running 8.0 release, but you've applied all of the currently available security patches. (Which you should do -- see freebsd-update(8) for one way of doing that, or use csup(1) to grab the latest RELENG_8_0 branch sources.) If it says '8.0-STABLE' or '8.1-PRERELEASE' then you're running 8.0 STABLE: in order to have this you would either have had to install a snapshot, or you would have had to use eg. csup(1) to grab sources from the RELENG_8 branch, and recompile the system. Note that the choices in FreeBSD are RELEASE, STABLE or CURRENT. There is no 'UNSTABLE' in the sense that many Linux distributions use it, nor does 'STABLE' mean the same thing. RELEASE are the release branches: these are suitable for production use, having been through various QA procedures and plenty of testing. RELEASE branches only get updates for *) Security patches *) Significant Bugs that would affect normal operation. STABLE is a development branch: it's called 'STABLE' because it is expected to run stably. STABLE generally receives continual fixes and updates, but these will previously have been tested in the bleeding edge CURRENT development branch. The exception to this is during the release process (as we are in at the moment), when this code branch is prepared for branching off the next RELEASE version, which will be 8.1-RELEASE. CURRENT is the bleeding edge of development. It usually works and can be compiled smoothly, but not always. People running this are expected to be capable of dealing with debugging, patching and rebuilding the system and to contribute to the FreeBSD development process. CURRENT's major version is always one more than the latest major release branch. Periodically, there will be a new .0 release version and everything bumps up one. The next update like that is 9.0-RELEASE scheduled for some time late this year. Note: the terms 'RELENG_8' or 'RELENG_8_0' relate to the branch names from CVS. They still apply, but CVS is nowadays automatically populated from Subversion, which is the project's principle version control system nowadays and where the equivalent terms are 'stable/8', 'releng/8.0' or 'release/8.0.0' You may see these mentioned on various mailing lists. Just some more confusing terminology. What problems are you seeing with the mirrors? Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwLgHQACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwSiACdEV7V0Rm0lXKo30IzcAX5VQHu vTIAn145J4FlNRgWGOBlzOWotN45/ML/ =ZbVV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----