From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 22:45:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC7237B405 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 22:45:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAJ6jom54310; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:45:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00c201c170c5$d4222400$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "R. Hartman" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <005201c1706f$572afb80$6600000a@ach.domain> <20011119124150.R16195@monorchid.lemis.com> <005901c170a2$1cd5efc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200111182159.11756@starbreaker.net> <20011119135936.S16195@monorchid.lemis.com> <001901c170c0$ce2ef460$9600000a@custcom> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:45:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It would seem, then, that I'm best off just sticking with RELEASE, no? ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Hartman" To: Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 07:09 Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message