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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD-stable? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 01:56:39 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <311C6BD7.62319AC4@FreeBSD.org> References: <4f9cb6$etp@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Craig Johnston <caj@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu> Craig Johnston wrote: > Ok.. there's a FAQ on -current but I was unable to find anything on > -stable. (please hit me in the head with something heavy and blunt if > I missed it.) You didn't miss it - nobody's really documented it yet. You goaded me into it, however (well, not you so much as the reminder you gave me) and I shall have this doc'd in a few hours in http://www.freebsd.org/support.html > I assume -stable is 2.1.0-release with bugfixes, i.e. more stable than > 2.1.0? Correct. > Is it possible to get a list somewhere of the differences between > -release and -stable? May one run a -stable kernel with the rest of > a -release source tree without horrible things happening? Probably not. -stable kernels should live with -stable derived binaries, and such is *definitely* true of -current. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project