Re: releases and stable for dummies
From: Josh Paetzel (friar_josh_at_tcbug.org)
Date: 12/19/03
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:06:15 +0000 To: Ron Sweeney <sween@modelm.org>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:06:20AM -0500, Ron Sweeney wrote:
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>
> Can somebody please give me a brief overview of the roadmap between
> releases and stable and how to determine which release is truly STABLE for
> a production environment?
>
> I have struggled making any sense with the number of releases and
> documentation.
>
To make a long story short, a RELEASE is a snapshot of STABLE from a
particular moment in time. The development of STABLE is frozen for a couple
weeks prior to a RELEASE to make sure that a RELEASE is as stable and bug-free
as possible. This is true of the 4.x line of development. For 5.x a RELEASE
is a snapshot of CURRENT. The official party line is that 4.x is for
production servers, while 5.x is for early adopters, although a fair number of
people are using 5.x machines in production environments without issue.
See the following link for the rest of the story...
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html
Josh Paetzel
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