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#! rnews 1895 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!news.wplus.spb.ru!not-for-mail From: "Igor N Kovalenko" <infoh@mail.wplus.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: One stupid question and one not so stupid Date: 3 Apr 1997 22:55:18 GMT Organization: InfoMarket Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <01bc4082$3f381f20$8fb108c2@owl.wplus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-143.wplus.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38430 Hi FreeBSD gurus, could someone explain what is *right* release of FreeBSD? Surfing around website I learned that basically there are two branches: "current" and "stable". But looking at FTP for download I see "release-2.1.7" and "release 2.2.1", as well as "FreeBSD-stable" and "FreeBSD-current". For my impression "FreeBSD-whatever" dirs contain something different from "release xxx" dirs. So, my stupid question is what is correlation between "release" numbers and "branches"? Which release belongs to which branch? What is *last* "stable" release? What exactly (please, URL) I should download to install it from DOS hard disk? I'm intended to do it in *this* way, so please do not suggest me FTP installation. And BTW, can someone say is there any serious advantage in *BSD over last versions of Linux kernel (2.0.x)? I'm not a dumb DOS guy, so feel free to dig into details :-) I also heard some splatter that Linux is not so stable as FreeBSD, is it true? To be specific, I'm going to use one of them for WEB server. One advantage of Linux I found: it is MUCH easier to understand what is appropriate distribution, looking at their websites ... :-) Thanks -- Igor N Kovalenko -- infoh@mail.wplus.net