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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!news.uoregon.edu!kaiwan.kaiwan.com!exit.com!not-for-mail From: frank@exit.com (Frank Mayhar) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD newbie questions.... Date: 12 Nov 1995 15:45:42 -0800 Organization: Subversive Atheists -R- Us Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4860v7$1vn@exit.com> References: <1995Nov9.041305.16191@oasis.enmu.edu> <30A23B47.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> <483unk$po@tzlink.j51.com> <30A6419E.1C4EBE01@freebsd.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: exit.com X-Copyright0: Copyright 1995 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. In article <30A6419E.1C4EBE01@freebsd.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >We have two branches of FreeBSD currently, -stable and -current. >To further confuse things a little, the -stable branch was formed at >2.0.5 and so everything subsequent to that has basically been considered >"2.1-in-waiting." The SNAPs are always previews of whatever release is >coming up, so every SNAP you've seen has been somewhere along the >timeline of 2.0.5 -> 2.1. After 2.1 is released, -stable will continue >but marching now towards 2.1.1 and beyond. Any SNAPs I release along >that branch will therefor be called 2.1.1-MMDDYY-SNAP. Just out of curiosity, what will happen down the line a bit when 2.2 is itself considered stable? That is, when it's coming up on 2.2 release time, alpha has come and gone, beta is pretty far along, and things are reasonably robust? Will -stable at some point pick up all the 2.2 bits? Will -stable be rebranched (thinking in CVS terms) from the now-stable 2.2 branch? I quite like the -stable process; it gave me a view of 2.1 when it was still very much closer to 2.0.5, and long before it was even close to release (I started running -stable on my new Pentium box in early August). Seeing that it will continue is a Good Thing in my book. It's a *lot* better than the patch kit way of doing things, IMHO, and it means that I don't have to wait for a release to get fixes. Kudos to the group. >Both are available via sup or ftp. FreeBSD-current (and the ports collection) is also available via CTM, as it happens. It would be Really Nice, btw, if -stable were also available that way. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com