From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 17:20:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5642C16A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:20:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.131.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B4B43D53 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:20:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: (qmail 11940 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2004 17:20:09 -0000 Received: from 67-51-121-244.dsl1.elk.ca.frontiernet.net (HELO blacklamb.mykitchentable.net) ([67.51.121.244]) (envelope-sender )SMTP for ; 21 Jul 2004 17:20:09 -0000 Received: from [165.107.42.142] (unknown [165.107.42.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641AF3BF3B5; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40FEA5CC.6080508@mykitchentable.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:20:12 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thompson, Jimi" References: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F524041F765A@exch4.elcsb.net> In-Reply-To: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F524041F765A@exch4.elcsb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "freebsd -questions@" cc: Ben Paley Subject: Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:20:11 -0000 On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: >FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - "CURRENT", "STABLE", and >"RELEASE". In order of increasing stability, they are: > >"CURRENT" = currently in development (Alpha) and by far the least stable >of the 3 > >"RELEASE" = released to the populous at large (Beta) and fairly stable >but may have some issues > >"STABLE" = well, just that, stable and the production release of the OS > > You've got STABLE and RELEASE mixed-up. STABLE is the beta and RELEASE is production. A RELEASE is a snapshot in the STABLE branch that has been tested and deemed ready for production. STABLE is usually "stable" but is still a development branch and thus, beta. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html HTH, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com