FreeBSD 6.0 and onwards

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:48 AM -0500 2004-11-08, Yuval Levy wrote:

>                                          I'd go one step further: Rather than
>  declaring the CURRENT branch STABLE and open a new CURRENT branch, I would
>  suggest to let both branches grow indefinitely with STABLE playing catch-up
>  on CURRENT.

	That's not possible.  You can't continually accrete more and more 
patches on top of one another.  Sooner or later, you have to make 
discontinuous changes.  FreeBSD works to make these as smooth and as 
infrequent as reasonably possible, but they still have to 
occasionally be made.

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