Help me

[Allen]

On Saturday 31 December 2005 04:59, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Daniel A. wrote:
> > On 12/30/05, Pavel Duda <element at email.cz> wrote:
> >>In short :
> >>release - is something you want for your production system
> >>stable - is something you can use too without much worry - it should be
> >>"stable" right ? :-)
> >>current - is for brave people who like to spend nights to figure out
> >>what the hell is going on with their system and fight with all those
> >>mysterious kernel panics..
> >
> > Isn't "stable" supposed to mean that it's "feature-stable", as in
> > "We've discontinued implementing new features to this kernel, and are
> > fixing bugs"?
>
> Not in FreeBSD it isn't.  You want 'Release' for that.  'Stable' is a
> development branch -- for code that has been well tested in the current
> branch and which is therefore something that could go into a release
> candidate.  It's called 'Stable' for historical reasons and because systems
> with that tag run stably -- which is a pretty damn impressive achievement
> for a code branch that can see extensive modifications to whole subsystems
> of the kernel.


Ahhh the good ol days of the CSRG :) Come on man, how can you possibly be 
impressed that they do that? They made Free BSD, it takes a lot more to 
impress me now


>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew

-Allen