having read and understood that, you should know that for most people -current is more than good enough to work with. I am always running -current in my production system and do not see any major (nor minor) problem. Well, if you want to try the veeeery lastest drivers of X then you'll have to ask for them explicitly and do it all by yourself (compile, CVS etc) instead of "just" downloading the kernel from a snapshot obsd ftp server. I know that comparisons are stupid but I am an ex linux user and I have never seen/ had the robustness of -current in any -stable release of the linux world...
So, if you want e.g. the newest azalia codec, don't hesitate and run -current. It's also a nice way to support the project... this way you help to test the driver Cheers, Pau 2007/9/12, Greg Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 9/11/07, Aaron W. Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hrm, I think this clarifies one thing... > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > 1. Once you run a -current, you cannot go backwards. This is repeated > > > over and over in the FAQ. > > > 2. New features do not get moved into -stable. > > > > I was under the impression that the current snapshots were still under the > > 4.2 > > heading, and as such, were not actually ahead of the 4.2 release. I guess I > > misunderstood here. Of course, I'm well aware of the particular FAQ. :-) > > > > The new features I am talking about are not the features after stable, but > > the > > feature list that is currently listed in 4.2. Those are features that I want > > to use now, but I want to make sure that I can move easily to 4.2-STABLE > > when > > it is released. Are you saying that there is no way for me to get the > > features > > in 4.2 now without running -CURRENT, which will require me to reinstall (as > > opposed to upgrade) when 4.2 is released? > > If you're running recent snapshots then you are running -CURRENT and > as Theo mentions above: > > "...but beware since -current is now ahead of what the upcoming > release will be, and that may not be what you want -- almost a > thousand commits have already happened to it." > > -RELEASE would have been sent to the presses awhile back and > development continues on from 4.2. You're past that point. The > options are to continue with -CURRENT or start fresh with -RELEASE. > > Greg > > -- > Ticketmaster and Ticketweb suck, but everyone knows that: > http://ticketmastersucks.org > > Dethink to survive - Mclusky
