From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 17 9:15:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234B337B404; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ene.asda.gr (ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5111343E42; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lefty@ene.asda.gr) Received: from ene.asda.gr (lefty.ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.162]) by ene.asda.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59804119; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:15:06 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3DD7CEB0.F2A9C2F8@ene.asda.gr> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:15:28 +0200 From: Lefteris Tsintjelis Organization: ASDA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: Kenneth Mays , scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?) References: <20021117224945.A806@grosbein.pp.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:14:51AM -0500, Kenneth Mays wrote: > > > Your question brings up an issue that was talked about several times, and it > > was addressed in the docs and the newsgroup. -STABLE is an engineering > > development branch that is 'more stable' than -CURRENT, but not more stable > > than -RELEASE. -STABLE is NOT for end users/customers for official > > production use (i.e. do so at your own risk). > > I wonder why no one says that -STABLE really WAS stable and WAS intended > for end users less than 2 years ago. Moreover, Hanbook said you > need -STABLE if you are using FreeBSD in production environment > and you need stability, Handbook said it even 15 months ago. > And it has been assetring so for long time, that's where the name > of this branch came from. Anyone can see that in CVS. > > Eugene Grosbein NOW THAT was making a lot of sense two years ago. Well, MY answer is that I am very new to FreeBSD so I wouldn't really know the branch name history but I couldn't agree any more with the old terminology you are referring too. PS: I think that this should be a chat thread though. LEfteris Tsintjelis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message