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Hi FreeBSD gurus,

could someone explain what is *right* release of FreeBSD?

Surfing around website I learned that basically there are two branches:
"current" and "stable".
But looking at FTP for download I see "release-2.1.7" and "release 2.2.1",
as well as "FreeBSD-stable" and "FreeBSD-current". For my impression
"FreeBSD-whatever" dirs contain something different from "release xxx"
dirs.

So, my stupid question is what is correlation between "release" numbers and
"branches"? Which release belongs to which branch? What is *last* "stable"
release?

What exactly (please, URL) I should download to install it from DOS hard
disk? I'm intended to do it in *this* way, so please do not suggest me FTP
installation.

And BTW, can someone say is there any serious advantage in *BSD over last
versions of Linux kernel (2.0.x)? I'm not a dumb DOS guy, so feel free to
dig into details :-) I also heard some splatter that Linux is not so stable
as FreeBSD, is it true? To be specific, I'm going to use one of them for
WEB server.

One advantage of Linux I found: it is MUCH easier to understand what is
appropriate distribution, looking at their websites ... :-)

Thanks
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Quote:> Hi FreeBSD gurus,

> could someone explain what is *right* release of FreeBSD?

> Surfing around website I learned that basically there are two branches:
> "current" and "stable".

Quote:> But looking at FTP for download I see "release-2.1.7" and "release 2.2.1",
> as well as "FreeBSD-stable" and "FreeBSD-current". For my impression
> "FreeBSD-whatever" dirs contain something different from "release xxx"
> dirs.

Quote:> So, my stupid question is what is correlation between "release" numbers and
> "branches"? Which release belongs to which branch? What is *last* "stable"
> release?

Quote:> What exactly (please, URL) I should download to install it from DOS hard
> disk? I'm intended to do it in *this* way, so please do not suggest me FTP
> installation.

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.1-RELEASE/[A-R]*
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.1-RELEASE/bin/*
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.1-RELEASE/manpages/*

Creating the following local stuff:

C:\FREEBSD\[A-R]*
C:\FREEBSD\BIN\*
C:\FREEBSD\MANPAGES\*

Quote:> And BTW, can someone say is there any serious advantage in *BSD over last
> versions of Linux kernel (2.0.x)? I'm not a dumb DOS guy, so feel free to
> dig into details :-) I also heard some splatter that Linux is not so stable
> as FreeBSD, is it true? To be specific, I'm going to use one of them for
> WEB server.

Quote:> One advantage of Linux I found: it is MUCH easier to understand what is
> appropriate distribution, looking at their websites ... :-)

Quote:> Thanks

--
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.

Current == 3.0
Release = 2.2.x
Stable == 2.1.x

Release will become Stable sometime around 2.2.3, I'd say.

Quote:> When 2.1.7 was released, it was the "stable" branch.
> Now 2.2.* is the "stable" branch :)  Confused ?

In any case, 2.2 is not quite "stable" yet - that will happen soon
enough though, with more testing and the wider release of 2.2.1 on the
net and CDROM.

--
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.