Subject: Re: What is NetBSD 1.6.2_RC4 exactly?
To: Gan Uesli Starling <alias@starling.us>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/14/2004 16:11:13
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:

> Did I accidentally build -current?

No.

> In my persuit of OSS I made to rebuild my kernel. I was rather
> expecting 1.6.1_STABLE but got NetBSD 1.6.2_RC4 instead. I know
> I did not run build.sh to get it.
>
> It does seem to work fine so far. But what is it? And is that
> okay?

RC means "release candidate". It is basically the same as 1.6.1_STABLE
(except newer).

It is probably exactly the same as the upcoming 1.6.2 release.

So it is okay. (It is not the testing -current.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/