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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.6 versus 2.2 Date: 18 Jan 1997 11:22:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5bqbq1$nlq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bbfd80$e983f0c0$6330fa9e@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su> <1997Jan8.175840.28795@wavehh.hanse.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33988 cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) wrote: > First of all, there's a misunderstanding. -stable is what FreeBSD > called the 2.1.x development tree. No other tree - stable or not - > takes this name. Well, sort of. It's expected that we'll call the 2.2 branch -stable (``2.2-stable'', to be exact) once 2.2R is out. This basically means that it will become a bugfix-only branch that continues to be maintained as long as the developers can afford maintainig a diverging branch. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)