Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:05:42 -0500 From: "Kutulu" <kutulu@kutulu.org> To: "Tomek" <tomek@mpionline.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Best Version? Stable/Release/? Message-ID: <00f501c1749d$49550280$88682518@longhill1.md.home.com> References: <01d201c1749b$5cdc9f40$f6f073d1@mpionline.com>
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From: "Tomek" <tomek@mpionline.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:51 PM Subject: Best Version? Stable/Release/? > Hello there, > From my understanding, the stable version is more stable tahn the > release version and is the safest bet for important servers, I just want > to verify if this is correct. Technically, the "stable" version is likely to be less stable than a "release" version, though in practice they are both pretty solid. Read the first few questions on: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html for the details. The basic idea is, changes get made to the "current" version, and tested extensively. The really important or useful ones will often get added into the "stable" version once they are generally thought to be bug free. Every so often, the "stable" version is judged to be solid enough for it's current state to be sent out as a new "release" version, and that's what you get when you buy CD's etc. For truly mission critical servers, you probably want to go with the latest release version. However, if you are careful with when/what you update and recompile, you should be fine using the latest stable version, and in particular, there have been quite a few useful changes since 4.4-RELEASE. --K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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