Subject: Re: Updating FreeBSD
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 28 2003 - 23:04:16 AKDT
On 28 Sep 2003, Damien Hull wrote:
>
> I went with the stable branch for the upgrade. I thought stable meant
> 4.8 but I got 4.9.
>
> Maybe I did something wrong but 4.9 is what I have. It seems to run OK
> but I'm not running anything on it yet. I should have a bunch of things
> installed by the end of the day.
FreeBSD's version numbering is not the same as the Linux kernel's. When
you track the stable tree, at the moment that means 4.x. If you want a
stable server or workstation, by all means go to 4.9--especially after the
openssh and sendmail vulnerabilities (among others).
5.x is the semi-development tree at the moment.
Mike
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