Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:02:11 -0400 From: James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation error Message-ID: <445F6B83.9080804@jamesbailie.com> In-Reply-To: <20060508145205.GC12437@zorglub.ssji.net> References: <20060508145205.GC12437@zorglub.ssji.net>
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Olivier Mehani wrote: > I have been surprised, however, to read in paragraph 4.3: "As > bugs are found in a RELEASE version, they are fixed, and the > fixes are added to the CVS tree. In FreeBSD, the resultant > version is called the STABLE version, while in NetBSD and > OpenBSD it continues to be called the RELEASE version." Someone in the know needs to clarify this. I always believed bug fixes did go into FreeBSD RELEASE, certainly security fixes do, and that FreeBSD Stable was a conservative version of CURRENT, getting new features from CURRENT as they were deemed stable enough for general use, with the chance of the occasional bug still remaining. -- James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> http://www.jamesbailie.com
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