Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:09:52 +0100 From: "R. Hartman" <rhartman@xs4all.nl> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <001901c170c0$ce2ef460$9600000a@custcom> References: <005201c1706f$572afb80$6600000a@ach.domain> <20011119124150.R16195@monorchid.lemis.com> <005901c170a2$1cd5efc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200111182159.11756@starbreaker.net> <20011119135936.S16195@monorchid.lemis.com>
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From the explanation below of STABLE it seems to me that this branch is = less reliable than RELEASE regardless of the fact that it includes bug = fixes. Especially the last two lines suggest to me that Matthew = Graybosch was right. From = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.= html: 19.2.2.1 What Is FreeBSD-STABLE? FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases are = made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with the = general assumption that they have first gone into FreeBSD-CURRENT first = for testing. This is still a development branch, however, and this means = that at any given time, the sources for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be = suitable for any particular purpose. It is simply another engineering = development track, not a resource for end-users. Regards, Ronald Hartman ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Greg Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Matthew Graybosch" <matthew@starbreaker.net> Cc: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>; = <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 04:29 Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night > On Sunday, 18 November 2001 at 22:02:30 -0500, Matthew Graybosch = wrote: > > On Sunday 18 November 2001 21:30, you wrote: > >> Okay, I'm not very clear on all these different versions of the > >> OS, and my snooping around the FreeBSD site did not greatly > >> enlighten me. > >> > >> Which version of the OS is the version that would be distributed, > >> say, on boxed CDs, like the version I initially bought at the > >> store? I presume from what I've read that -CURRENT is more > >> volatile than STABLE; how do both of these relate to RELEASE (if > >> there is such a thing--my system mentions RELEASE on the > >> screensaver). > > > > - -RELEASE is the FreeBSD you get on packaged CDs. You could = probably > > download ISOs of -STABLE and possibly -CURRENT, but those branches > > don't get packaged and sold. > > > > - -CURRENT is the development version of FreeBSD. Use if it you're a > > hacker or like to live on the edge. > > > > - -STABLE is the testing version, similar to Linux-Mandrake's = "Cooker" > > distro. You'd use if if you absolutely can't wait for the next > > official release. >=20 > No, as the name suggests, -STABLE is the most stable version. It's > -RELEASE with bug fixes. >=20 > > - -RELEASE is the branch considered "suitable for use in production > > environments" -- mission-critical servers, etc. >=20 > No, as the name suggests, -RELEASE is the version which gets released > on CD-ROMs. >=20 > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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