Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:06:15 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> To: Ron Sweeney <sween@modelm.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: releases and stable for dummies Message-ID: <20031219120615.GD19381@ns1.tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20031219110427.K29051@mockbsd.gha.chartermi.net> References: <20031219110427.K29051@mockbsd.gha.chartermi.net>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:06:20AM -0500, Ron Sweeney wrote: > > > Can somebody please give me a brief overview of the roadmap between > releases and stable and how to determine which release is truly STABLE for > a production environment? > > I have struggled making any sense with the number of releases and > documentation. > To make a long story short, a RELEASE is a snapshot of STABLE from a particular moment in time. The development of STABLE is frozen for a couple weeks prior to a RELEASE to make sure that a RELEASE is as stable and bug-free as possible. This is true of the 4.x line of development. For 5.x a RELEASE is a snapshot of CURRENT. The official party line is that 4.x is for production servers, while 5.x is for early adopters, although a fair number of people are using 5.x machines in production environments without issue. See the following link for the rest of the story... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html Josh Paetzel
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