is there a laptop ?

Chris Hill chris at monochrome.org
Thu Mar 12 17:36:08 PDT 2009


On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Hendy wrote:

> I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could 
> very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people 
> doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is.

Since nobody else has chimed in... HEAD refers to the bleeding edge, aka 
CURRENT. It's what you get if you have

*default release=cvs tag=.

in your supfile when you update the system (not ports). It changes 
frequently. See 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html

[ Lengthy quote snipped 'cause this is OT anyway ]

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