freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused)

[Reko Turja]

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From: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 2:03 PM
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused)

> STABLE is a development branch: it's called 'STABLE' because it is
> expected to run stably.  STABLE generally receives continual fixes 
> and
> updates, but these will previously have been tested in the bleeding 
> edge
Isn't STABLE called stable, because the featureset and kernel 
interface is set, the term has nothing to do with stableness of the OS 
itself. Running STABLE is equal to running beta, use at your own risk.

-Reko