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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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As a card-carrying noob to FreeBSD, I have a question .... Recent posts 
have referred to version 9.3-STABLE of FreeBSD .... My uname output 
appears below, obviously labeled RELEASE, not STABLE .... How do I 
'upgrade' from 9.3-RELEASE to 9.3-STABLE ?


[wam@kabini1, ~, 3:44:36pm] 404 % uname -a; date
FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu 
Jul 10 23:44:39 UTC 2014 
root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
Wed Oct 15 18:28:06 CDT 2014
[wam@kabini1, ~, 6:28:06pm] 405 %


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