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- Add AMD64 into the supported platform list.

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- Remove a branching graph and add a link to articles/releng instead.
- We have 6-CURRENT and 5-STABLE now.
- Remove a broken link to 3.X-STABLE release.
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<answer>
<para>Briefly, FreeBSD is a &unix; like operating system for
the &i386;, IA-64, PC-98, Alpha/AXP, and &ultrasparc; platforms
the Alpha/AXP, AMD64, &i386; IA-64, PC-98, and &ultrasparc; platforms
based on U.C. Berkeley's <quote>4.4BSD-Lite</quote>
release, with some <quote>4.4BSD-Lite2</quote>
enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William
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url="&url.books.handbook;/cutting-edge.html#CURRENT">FreeBSD-CURRENT</ulink>
is the development version of the operating system, which
will in due course become the new &os.stable; branch.
This is expected to happen around 5.3-RELEASE. As such, it is
As such, it is
really only of interest to developers working on the
system and die-hard hobbyists. See the <ulink
url="&url.books.handbook;/cutting-edge.html#CURRENT">relevant
@ -396,8 +396,7 @@
<para>Snapshot releases are directly available from <ulink
url="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/">
ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/</ulink>.
3-STABLE snapshots are no longer being produced.</para>
ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/</ulink>.</para>
<para>Snapshots are generated, on the average, daily for
all actively developed branches.</para>
@ -423,49 +422,10 @@
been one unbroken line since 2.0 was released, leading
towards 5.2.1-RELEASE (and beyond). At 5.3-RELEASE, the
5-STABLE branch is expected to be created, and
&os.current; will become 6-CURRENT. If a little ASCII art
would help, this is how it looks:</para>
<programlisting> 2.0
|
|
| [2.1-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 2.0.5 -&gt; 2.1 -&gt; 2.1.5 -&gt; 2.1.6 -&gt; 2.1.7.1 [2.1-STABLE ends]
| (Mar 1997)
|
|
| [2.2-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 2.2.1 -&gt; 2.2.2-RELEASE -&gt; 2.2.5 -&gt; 2.2.6 -&gt; 2.2.7 -&gt; 2.2.8 [end]
| (Mar 1997) (Oct 97) (Apr 98) (Jul 98) (Dec 98)
|
|
3.0-SNAPs (started Q1 1997)
|
|
3.0-RELEASE (Oct 1998)
|
| [3.0-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 3.1-RELEASE (Feb 1999) -&gt; 3.2 -&gt; 3.3 -&gt; 3.4 -&gt; 3.5 -&gt; 3.5.1
| (May 1999) (Sep 1999) (Dec 1999) (June 2000) (July 2000)
|
| [4.0-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 4.0 (Mar 2000) -&gt; 4.1 -&gt; 4.1.1 -&gt; 4.2 -&gt; 4.3 -&gt; 4.4 -&gt; ... later 4.X releases ...
|
| (July 2000) (Sep 2000) (Nov 2000)
5.0-RELEASE (Jan 2003)
|
|
5.1-RELEASE (Jun 2003)
|
|
5.2-RELEASE (Jan 2004)
|
|
5.2.1-RELEASE (Feb 2004)
|
\|/
+
[5-CURRENT continues]</programlisting>
&os.current; will become 6-CURRENT. More detail information,
see <quote><ulink url="&url.articles.releng;/release-proc.html">
FreeBSD Release Engineering:
2.2.1 Creating the Release Branch</ulink></quote>.</para>
<para>The 2.2-STABLE branch was retired with the release of 2.2.8.
The 3-STABLE branch has ended with the release of 3.5.1, the
@ -473,14 +433,17 @@
branches will be, for the most part, security-related bug
fixes.</para>
<para>4-STABLE is the actively developed -STABLE branch.
The latest release on the 4-STABLE branch is
<!-- temporarily commented out until 5.3R is released -->
<!--
<para>5-STABLE is the actively developed -STABLE branch.
The latest release on the 5-STABLE branch is
&rel2.current;-RELEASE, which was released in
&rel2.current.date;.</para>
-->
<para>The 5-CURRENT branch is slowly progressing toward the
creation of a 5-STABLE branch. See <link
linkend="current">What is FreeBSD-CURRENT?</link> for more
<para>The 6-CURRENT branch is the actively developed
-CURRENT branch toward the next generation of &os;.
See <link linkend="current">What is &os;-CURRENT?</link> for more
information on this branch.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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FreeBSD FTP site</ulink>:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>For the current 3.X-STABLE release, 3.5.1-RELEASE,
see the <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.5.1-RELEASE/">3.5.1-RELEASE
directory</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<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><ulink
url="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
5.X Snapshot</ulink> releases are made daily for the
<link linkend="current">-CURRENT</link> branch, these being
of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and
developers.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The latest 4-STABLE release, &rel2.current;-RELEASE can be
found in the <ulink
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url="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/">4.X
snapshots</ulink> are usually made daily.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
url="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
5.X Snapshot</ulink> releases are made daily for the
<link linkend="current">-CURRENT</link> branch, these being
of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and
developers.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Information about obtaining FreeBSD on CD, DVD, and other