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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