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 <sect1>
+	<heading>What's with all these SNAPshot, RELENG and RELEASE releases?</heading>
+
+	<p>
+	There are currently three active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD
+	<url url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi" name="CVS Repository">:
+
+	<itemize>
+	<item><bf/RELENG_2_1_0/    AKA <bf/2.1-stable/ AKA <bf/"2.1 branch"/</item>
+	<item><bf/RELENG_2_2/      AKA <bf/2.2-stable/ AKA <bf/"2.2 branch"/</item>
+	<item><bf/HEAD/            AKA <bf/-current/ AKA <bf/3.0-current/</item>
+	</itemize>
+
+	<p><bf/HEAD/ is not an actual branch tag, like the other two, it's
+	simply a symbolic constant for
+	<em/"the current, non-branched development stream"/
+	which we simply refer to as <bf/-current/.
+
+	Right now, <bf/-current/ is the 3.0 development stream and the
+	<bf/2.2-stable/ branch, <bf/RELENG_2_2/, forked off from
+	<bf/-current/ in November 1996.
+
+	The <bf/2.1-stable/ branch, <bf/RELENG_2_1_0/,departed -current in
+	September of 1994.
+
+	<itemize>
+	<item><bf/Fine, so what are SNAPshots?/
+
+	<p>"SNAPs" are made from -current, that is to say 3.0, and they happen
+	infrequently, basically whenever I feel like doing one (e.g. I or
+	someone else wants something tested), and this generally doesn't
+	happen more than 3-4 times a year.</item>
+
+	<item><bf/And what constitutes a full "RELEASE" then?/
+
+	<p>A full release generally occurs along a branch, divorced from
+	the <bf/-current/ mainline and its associated instabilities as people
+	work on new mechanisms or generally do renovation on FreeBSD.  A
+	release, unless it's perhaps the very first one on a new branch,
+	is meant to be of slightly better and more tested stuff, and the
+	release date is chosen to coincide with a point in time when the
+	sources are the most stable, following ALPHA and BETA test periods
+	along the branch (during which time the addition of new functionality
+	is discouraged and the testing of existing functionality strongly
+	encouraged). </item>
+
+	<item><bf/Makes sense so far - so, what's a "RELENG?" release?/
+
+	<p>The RELENG releases are a new thing, sort of a "release of the day"
+	mechanism which is automated and set to run along a given branch,
+	in the current case that being <bf/RELENG_2_2/.
+
+	The URL <url url="ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD"
+	name="ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD"> points to a machine
+	which builds a full 2.2 branch release <em/every day/ from wherever
+	the RELENG_2_2 tag happens to be pointing at 3am.  If the new
+	build succeeds, the release is moved into the anonymous FTP area
+	for transfer by others.  If it fails, jkh gets a mail telling him
+	"Hey, somebody broke the 2.2 branch! Bad hacker, no caffeine!"
+	and he goes off to investigate.  The 2.2 branch is not supposed to
+	break since people are only supposed to be committing bug fixes and
+	well-tested enhancements to that branch, nothing experimental
+	or untried (sometimes they do anyway, but hey - this is a
+	volunteer-driven project and we try to take that in stride :-).
+	</item>
+	</itemize>
+      </sect1>
+
+      <sect1>

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+	  In post-2.2.2 and 3.0, <tt>/etc/sysconfig</tt> was renamed
+	  to a more self-describing <tt>rc.conf</tt> file and the syntax
+	  cleaned up a bit in the process.  <tt>/etc/netstart</tt> was also
+	  renamed to <tt>/etc/rc.network</tt> so that all files could be
+	  copied with a <tt>cp /usr/src/etc/rc* /etc</tt> command.
+
+          <tt>/etc/rc.local</tt> is here as always and is the place to
+          start up additional local services like <tt/INN/ or set custom
+	  options.

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