Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 05:12:25 +0100 From: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> To: "BSD Freak" <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <013901c13f2f$0b7b5750$0200a8c0@mark2> References: <44cea144ad3a.44ad3a44cea1@mbox.com.au>
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> Please excuse my ignorance but I was just looking at ftp.freebsd.org in > the /pub/FreeBSD/branches directory. A couple of listed items are: > > -current > 4.0-stable > > > My questions are: > > 1) is 4.0-stable later than the 4.3-RELEASE CD? Yes, 4.x-STABLE represents the most recent code for the -STABLE branch. If this is your first install then I recommend, if you have a beefy internet connection, downloading the install floppies for 4.x-STABLE, popping them in, and letting that handle what to download for you as it installs. The other option is downloading the 4.3-RELEASE ISO and burning it to a CD (or wait a couple of days and download a 4.4-RELEASE ISO when that is available), which will be bootable provided your computer supports booting from a CD. This will take considerably longer to download as you're downloading a lot more data, but you will have the CD which is convienient later. If you are upgrading an existing install, then look at CVSup in the handbook at www.freebsd.org. > 2) is -current the 5.0 branch? Indeed, this is correct. -CURRENT is the development branch of FreeBSD working towards a release (whereupon 5.0 will become the main production -STABLE branch) in November 2002. > 3) is there a 5.0-stable branch? No, there is only one -STABLE branch at any time and it is currently tracking up to a 4.4-RELEASE in the next few days. I think the best advice on the -STABLE/-CURRENT thing for you would be forget -CURRENT, it's not what you want. Unless there is some really good reason why you need to run -CURRENT (and if you don't know that there is, then there isn't :) ), then don't. Hope this helps, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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