RELENG_5 ?

[Torben Brosten]

Hi David,

You might want to look at the "FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE" page which 
discusses the differences between stable and current.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html

cheers,

Torben


David Rio wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD in production enviroments so I used FreeBSD 4.7 and 4.8.
> Now, I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my laptop. 
> So I decided to keep track of the -RELEASE_5 (STABLE). But It seems that there is 
> not such a branch on the repository.
> Reading diferent links at freebsd.org. It seems that there is only to branchs for 
> 5.1:
> 
> 	-CURRENT
> 	-RELENG_5_1
> 
> The first one, I think can be a very agresive for my intentions. The second one,
> instead, will not modify my sources to improve the performace because it is a 
> patch branch.
> 
> If I am not wrong with this, what will be the reason to install 5.1 instead 4.8?
> I mean, 5.1 has more features but a worst performace that 4.8. On the other hand,
> there is no -STABLE branch of 5.1 so the only way to keep you system up to date
> is follow the -CURRENT branch which is a little agresive in my case.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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