Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CVSUPing the 2.2.7 Source Message-ID: <XFMail.980723131916.wwoods@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <19980723161710.A14217@astro.psu.edu>
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Thank you for this quick responce....I never cease to be amazed by the quick responces here.....This answered my question fully. On 23-Jul-98 Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:09:04PM -0700, William Woods wrote: > >> Ok, then, in your opinion, what should I get, Release or stable? Which is >> preferable? > > Right now, they are practically the same. As time goes by, > -stable will diverge from 2.2.7-RELEASE, and eventually become > 2.2.8-RELEASE. > > As FreeBSD developers, we prefer to make our product better > than to damage it. So the changes we incorporate into -stable > should, on the whole, make it a better product with more features > and fewer bugs. Every now and then, we screw up, and make a > change for the worse. > > You should choose 2.2.7-RELEASE if you want a known quantity. > Any bugs found in it sould be documented in the ERRATA.TXT files > that's on ftp.freebsd.org. > > But if you choose -STABLE (especially a -STABLE that comes from > a longer time since a -RELEASE) then you will get a product > that should generally have more features and fewer bugs, but > possibly a new quirk or two that wasn't in 2.2.7-RELEASE. > > -- > Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. ---------------------------------- William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> --> FreeBSD 2.2.6 <-- Date: 23-Jul-98 Time: 13:17:43 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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