On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Christopher San Diego wrote:
I'm a confused newbie whose been (re)installing FreeBSD 5.3 Release for the past week or two.
I've read the handbook and various other documents concerning updating FreeBSD only to learn that -STABLE and -CURRENT are both development branches.
Take a look at what RELENG_5 and RELENG_5_3 means. That might make it clearer for you what release you want to track. RELENG_5 gets you a stable system with developments (5.4), RELENG_5_3 will get you a stable system with important fixes (5.3) last time I looked.
CURRENT is some version of 6.0 or other. The difference in a major release number might give you an idea of which you'd like to follow.
I never understood those CURRENT, STABLE or WHATEVER either. But, learn about what RELENG you'll need and I think you'll be fine. There are a lot of good webpages out there, and some official documentation on what the different branches means.
/Andreas
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