From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 17:19: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A611132A for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:18:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (jgl.reno.nv.us [207.228.2.142]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA17222; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:17:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <014301be5adc$58054d40$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "John Smith" , Subject: Re: version question. Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:16:35 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is rather a stupid question, but which one is the stable >release of FreeBSD right now? > > In the ftp site there is 2.2.8-stable, 2.2.8-release, 3.1-stable, >3.1-relase. > > What is the difference between stable and relaase, and what is the >difference between 3.1 and 2.2.8? is the 3.1 the developement version, or >has it been officially released. 3.1-STABLE is the STABLE version, 2.2.8-STABLE is scheduled for End-of-Life and is no longer actively maintained. A RELEASE version is basically a snapshot of the system on the day it is declared 'here'. STABLE is the RELEASE version plus any updates/bug fixes/patches that come out after the RELEASE issue. CURRENT is the active development branch. As most things in CURRENT get the bugs worked out of them, they get incorporated into STABLE, until nearly everything is fixed at which point CURRENT becomes the new RELEASE and the process starts all over again. Unlike Microsoft products, FreeBSD updates appear much more often than just every three years. --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message