Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:07:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com> To: dan@tictactoe.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD releases Message-ID: <20000728120724.396301F6B@nil.science-factory.com> In-Reply-To: <KNEMIPLKGHMGJFKHBAHOKEFECAAA.dan@tictactoe.com> References: <KNEMIPLKGHMGJFKHBAHOKEFECAAA.dan@tictactoe.com>
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> I have been trying to get a ISO cd image of FreeBSD 4.0 stable, i went to > releng4.freebsd.org and i found the latest version (4.0-20000727-STABLE) but > i cant find a cd image of it anywhere, is > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.0/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.0-install.iso > the same as the aforementioned directoy on releng4.freebsd.org?? Please read the recent announcement from the freebsd-announce mailing list. You can access it via the excellent web archive service at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-announce.html > Also, from what i see from looking > at the ftp server, there are 3 versions of freebsd currently in > development - 3.5, 4.2, and 5.0. Why? is the point here so we can catch up > to redhat's version number or something?? this many current versions seems > more confusing than necessary to me. That's easy. The established development cycle is that there is a development version (-CURRENT) and a stable version for normal use (-STABLE). You see more than two versions, because the major numbers changed recently. Old -STABLE went into 3.x releases (3.5 the last one) Old -CURRENT went into 4.x snap shots (until it became 4.0-STABLE end of last year) Then major release numbers bumped. Present -STABLE goes into 4.x releases (4.1 the last one) Present -CURRENT goes int 5.x snap shots Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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