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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:28:03 -0500
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Bob Johnson <stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu>, stable@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?
Message-ID:  <20021119182803.L8853@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3DDA90CD.387D6C9A@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters wrote:
> > The FreeBSD documentation
> > specifically recommended running -stable in a production
> > environment.
> 
> That was before the release branches were created.  If the handbook
> fails to recommend the most up-to-date branch now, it most definitely
> should be corrected.  Would you like to research this and write a
> PR if necessary?

The handbook does not say this and hasn't for quite a while.  It in
fact recommends *against* tracking -stable if you only want to track
security fixes.  I think it puts things quite accurately:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html

- Rahul

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