Daniel A. wrote:
On 12/30/05, Pavel Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In short : release - is something you want for your production system stable - is something you can use too without much worry - it should be "stable" right ? :-) current - is for brave people who like to spend nights to figure out what the hell is going on with their system and fight with all those mysterious kernel panics..
Isn't "stable" supposed to mean that it's "feature-stable", as in "We've discontinued implementing new features to this kernel, and are fixing bugs"?
Not in FreeBSD it isn't. You want 'Release' for that. 'Stable' is a
development branch -- for code that has been well tested in the current
branch and which is therefore something that could go into a release
candidate. It's called 'Stable' for historical reasons and because systems
with that tag run stably -- which is a pretty damn impressive achievement
for a code branch that can see extensive modifications to whole subsystems
of the kernel.
Cheers,
Matthew
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