Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jul 21 13:14:56 PDT 2004
On Jul 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
[ ... ]
> OK, as I understand, the branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE. But I
> often see
> 4.10-STABLE recommended for production use. This is probably due to
> what you
> describe above.
That's right, 4.10 is the latest -STABLE release.
> What does RELEASE mean, as specifically as you can?
RELEASE refers to a specific version of the system which has gone
through the release engineering process described at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html
> I'm using 5.2.1-RELEASE and am not planning on going 4.10-STABLE, as I
> can't
> due to hardware, and it's not a big deal as this isn't for production.
> But
> I'm curious ... is RELEASE supposed to be the *most* preferable
> candidate for
> someone considering a production OS, but just at this time, 5.x hasn't
> settled down?
End users are expected to install releases rather than daily snapshots
from -STABLE or -CURRENT, yes. Releases are published as .iso images
and resold by FreeBSD distributors on CDs.
> If it had settled down, would would the most preferable
> production snapshot in 5.x-STABLE be called RELEASE?
If 5.x had settled down, 5.x would now be -STABLE, and the latest
RELEASE of 5.x (currently 5.2.1) would be the "most preferable version"
for end-users to run.
> And is this not the case now because 5.x is taking longer than it
> should, so RELEASE is there, even if perhaps it shouldn't be?
Thats about what I feel, yes. My opinion is that the current level of
effort to stabilize 5.x should have happened around the 5.0 to 5.1
transition, rather than now at the 5.2 to 5.3 transition.
--
-Chuck
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