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is the development version of the operating system, which |
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is the development version of the operating system, which |
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will in due course become 5.0-RELEASE. As such, it is |
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This is expected to happen around 5.2-RELEASE. As such, it is |
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really only of interest to developers working on the |
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system and die-hard hobbyists. See the <ulink |
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system and die-hard hobbyists. See the <ulink |
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experimental features are quite undesirable. It receives |
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been one unbroken line leading towards 5.0-RELEASE (and |
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beyond) since 2.0 was released. If a little ASCII art |
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6-CURRENT. If a little ASCII art |
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would help, this is how it looks:</para> |
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<para>4-STABLE is the actively developed -STABLE branch. |
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lists. Since hardware changes so quickly, however, we |
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