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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:42:47 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        "R. Hartman" <rhartman@xs4all.nl>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mysterious boot during the night
Message-ID:  <20011120094247.L84417@monorchid.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <00c201c170c5$d4222400$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Monday, 19 November 2001 at  7:45:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> On  Monday, November 19, 2001 07:09, R. Hartman <rhartman@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> From the explanation below of STABLE it seems to me that this branch is less
>> reliable than RELEASE regardless of the fact that it includes bug fixes.
>> Especially the last two lines suggest to me that Matthew Graybosch was right.
>>
>> From
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html:
>>
>> 19.2.2.1 What Is FreeBSD-STABLE?  
>> FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases
>> are made.  Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and
>> with the general assumption that they have first gone into
>> FreeBSD-CURRENT first for testing. This is still a development
>> branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources
>> for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular
>> purpose. It is simply another engineering development track, not a
>> resource for end-users.
>
> It would seem, then, that I'm best off just sticking with RELEASE, no?

No.  The text is wrong.  It's as I said before: -STABLE is the stable
version, -RELEASE is the released version.

Greg
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