From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 2:55: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D543437C391 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 02:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Cfha-000CRf-00; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:54:42 +0200 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:54:42 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Daniel Cuthbert Cc: openzero@bsdmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-3.5 Message-ID: <20000713115442.A47753@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000712154626.23013.qmail@bsdmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:02:09AM +0100 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2000-07-13 (09:02), Daniel Cuthbert wrote: > Can anyone explain the difference between the version numbers? which is > newer 4.0 or 3.5? ---- 3.0 --- stable development ------- 3.4-RELEASE -------- 3.5-RELEASE \ \ \- wild development --- stable development --- 4.0-RELEASE --- Basically, when 3.0-RELEASE occurs, development started on the 4.0 branch, where all the new and latest stuff would go, and would be imported back to the 3.0 branch if considered stable enough. Eventually, it was felt the 4.0 stuff was ready for prime time, so it was cleaned up, and became 4.0-RELEASE, whereas previously it was 4.0-CURRENT. At that exact time, the 5.0 branch was started, to take all the new development, since the 4.0 branch was now dedicated to being stable for production use. The upgrade to 3.4-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE includes many new features, some changed driver names, different ways of doing things, and so on. However, after 3.4 was released, stable updates continued on the 3.0 branch, and were included. Since these updates had occurred, and some people didn't want the hassle of upgrading to 4.0-RELEASE, the final release on the 3.0 branch, 3.5-RELEASE was made. Basically, 3.5-RELEASE was later in time, but doesn't contain the features that 4.0-RELEASE has. If you want to choose a release, choose 4.0-RELEASE, or wait a few days for 4.1-RELEASE. Starting with 3.5-RELEASE now would leave you at a dead-end, and you'd have to upgrade to the 4.0 branch soon anyway. 4.0 also has more features, supports more hardware, and so forth. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message