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"Fix" the FAQ so that it can deal with the concept of two "latest"

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releases of FreeBSD (at the moment, 4.7 and 5.0).

This is a hack.  It really needs to be fixed to be more generalized
and so that this concept can be used in documents other than the FAQ.

But at least for now, we don't say weird things like "5.0-RELEASE is
the latest release from the 4-STABLE branch".
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@ -15,6 +15,14 @@
%mailing-lists;
<!ENTITY bibliography SYSTEM "../../../share/sgml/bibliography.sgml">
<!-- Hackish entities so that we can deal with multiple version -->
<!-- numbers for "latest" versions of FreeBSD. This needs to be -->
<!-- handled in a more generalized way. -->
<!ENTITY rel2.current CDATA "4.7">
<!ENTITY rel2.current.date CDATA "October 2002">
]>
<book>
@ -250,12 +258,29 @@
<para>What is the latest version of FreeBSD?</para>
</question>
<!--
This answer is a hack to deal with the fact that for now there are two
"latest" versions of FreeBSD.
-->
<answer>
<para>At this point in FreeBSD's development, there are two
parallel development branches; releases are being made from
both branches. The 4.X series of releases
is being made from the <emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis> branch
and the 5.X series of releases is being made from
<emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Version <ulink
URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/">&rel.current;</ulink>
is the latest <emphasis>RELEASE</emphasis> version; it was
released in &rel.current.date;. This is also the latest
<emphasis>STABLE</emphasis> version.</para>
is the latest release from the
<emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis> branch; it was
released in &rel.current.date;.
Version <ulink
URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel2.current;-RELEASE/">&rel2.current;</ulink>
is the latest release from the
<emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis> branch; it was
released in &rel2.current.date;.</para>
<para>Briefly, <emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis> is aimed
at the ISP, corporate user, or any user who wants stability and a
@ -272,6 +297,11 @@
linkend="stable">FreeBSD-STABLE</link>) than that, doing so
is more of a commitment, as the sources are a moving
target.</para>
<para>More information on FreeBSD releases can be found on
the <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/index.html">Release
Engineering page</ulink> on the FreeBSD Web site.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@ -495,11 +525,17 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The current 4-STABLE release, &rel.current;-RELEASE can be
<para>The latest 5.X release, &rel.current;-RELEASE can be
found in the <ulink
URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/">&rel.current;-RELEASE directory</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The latest 4-STABLE release, &rel2.current;-RELEASE can be
found in the <ulink
URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel2.current;-RELEASE/">&rel2.current;-RELEASE directory</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
URL="ftp://releng4.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">4.X