Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:34:43 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: krinklyfig@spymac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware Message-ID: <40FEFD93.4070904@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <200407211134.44903.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F524041F765A@exch4.elcsb.net> <40FEA5CC.6080508@mykitchentable.net> <200407211134.44903.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On 7/21/2004 11:34 AM Joshua Tinnin wrote: >On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:20 am, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> >wrote: > > >>On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: >> >> >>>FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - "CURRENT", "STABLE", and >>>"RELEASE". In order of increasing stability, they are: >>> >>>"CURRENT" = currently in development (Alpha) and by far the least stable >>>of the 3 >>> >>>"RELEASE" = released to the populous at large (Beta) and fairly stable >>>but may have some issues >>> >>>"STABLE" = well, just that, stable and the production release of the OS >>> >>> >>You've got STABLE and RELEASE mixed-up. STABLE is the beta and RELEASE >>is production. A RELEASE is a snapshot in the STABLE branch that has >>been tested and deemed ready for production. STABLE is usually "stable" >>but is still a development branch and thus, beta. >> >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht >>ml >> >> > >Then why do I hear that 5.2.1-RELEASE is not ready to be called STABLE? Why >would it be downgraded? Why have there been no STABLE 5.x branches? Or am I >just confused? > > I know Charles Swiger has discussed this and pointed you to the release engineering doc but this might even simplify it further. A "RELEASE" is nothing more than a snapshot of the tree at a specific point in time. Thus a 4-STABLE release is a stable release and a 5-CURRENT is a current release. Therefore all of the CURRENT warnings apply to 5.2.1-RELEASE although it is much less likely to contain as many problems as just grabbing the most recent version of CURRENT. I know it's confusing. HTH, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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