> Don't think about it as Linux. It has more with BSD > systems. Like OpenBSD. You have release, you can have > stable with security updates but only for base system > (sunsolve.sun.com). If you want updates for packages > too then you must use current(dev). Which is not > problem. It's problem when you must use another OS > because OpenBSD is in current versions way ahead in > stability then any other OS in its stable version.
In BSD it's easier (at least in FreeBSD). Base system is updated quite regularly (e.g. after 7.1-RELEASE we had 7.1-RELEASE-p1, 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and so on...). And ports are updated separately and quite often... What is important, in FreeBSD we have at least two branches (current, stable and legacy). There are much more freedom: I may update to latest patch level, update to next release or to checkout current and get all cool features and new bugs :) And here I don't see RELEASE branch (patchsets and upstream), only stale releases or permanent CURRENT. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
