Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:18:36 +0100 From: "Morten Seeberg" <ml@seeberg.dk> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: is -STABLE really stable? Message-ID: <030101bf40ad$3524d770$1600a8c0@SOS>
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(When I write STABLE im referring to the STABLE branc of FBSD, when writing stable i mean running stable). From what I understand about STABLE, itīs a branch of RELEASE, but with bugfixes, newly added features, which has been tested in CURRENT? But from my experience, STABLE is often is more unstable than RELEASEs, can this be true? Is it due to the changes which are made on a day-to-day basis on STABLE?? One of my friends said, that the best way to know which STABLE version is truly stable was to follow the stable@freebsd.org mailinglist and watch for which STABLE version there werenīt any problems with. This is very time consuming, so I was wondering, whether there is a way you could let us know, when there is a "good"/"better" STABLE out? Or should I just look at the snapshots, and then whenever there are a larger number of days between 2 snapshots => a stable one, fx: 3.3-19991103-STABLE 3.3-19991104-STABLE 3.3-19991109-STABLE 3.3-19991110-STABLE There is 5 days between 1104 and 1109 and only 1 day between 1109 and 1110, does this mean that 1109 is more stable than 1110? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' > /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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