Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:10:20 +0200 From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on CVS Branches Message-ID: <20030828141020.GC21213@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <3F4E0715.3040402@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <3F4B4633.1010807@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030826045512.N503@njamn8or.no-ip.org> <3F4E0715.3040402@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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--YkJPYEFdoxh/AXLE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? Well, that depends. At the moment, -stable has (or had) some stability prob= lems since some enhancements for huge memory systems (> 4gb) where merged =66rom -current). I think the best for production system is the latest security branch, i.e. RELENG_4_8 which is the latest release (4.8-RELEASE) + all the security fixes that have been released so far. -stable aka. RELENG_4 contains those fixes + other bug fixes + feature enhancements, that might cause problems once in a while. > Also i am still a bit unsure, what CURRENT, RELEASE and STABLE mean. > From other OS's, i know that "Release" means "for production use". > But 5.x-RELEASE is said to be not for production. The FreeBSD 5.x releases were made in order to provide a solid test basis for the very latest branch of FreeBSD. Although it runs very stable for a lot of people, more conservative users that do not need any of the new features in FreeBSD 5.x are recommended stay with FreeBSD 4.x at the present. Regards, Simon --YkJPYEFdoxh/AXLE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Tg1LCkn+/eutqCoRAoOtAKD8lp7+C+iYj1L/Ivh3YZh0Dwl3agCgt97R JIrRrgkZooCHU6rup4aHOXk= =RJ74 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YkJPYEFdoxh/AXLE--
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