From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 2:20:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E0537B416; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id fAJAKHM00965; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:20:17 GMT Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAJAKGu38197; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:20:17 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:20:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night In-Reply-To: <005901c170a2$1cd5efc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Which version of the OS is the version that would be distributed, say, on boxed > CDs, like the version I initially bought at the store? I presume from what I've > read that -CURRENT is more volatile than STABLE; how do both of these relate to > RELEASE (if there is such a thing--my system mentions RELEASE on the > screensaver). Hmm... a discussion is in progress on stable@ about the possibility that the demon screensaver (possibly amongst others) can cause crashes and spontanious reboots. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=637980+0+archive/2001/freebsd-stable/20011111.freebsd-stable Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message