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+Is there a branch oriented towards stability, like the FreeBSD's
+-STABLE?
+Not yet. We intend to emplace most major features on our goals list before
+we start branching. We do not yet have the development resources required
+to maintain multiple branches. However, we do have a "DragonFly_Stable" tag
+which users can synchronize to instead of HEAD. It is just a float tag
+indicating a 'reasonably stable point' in development i.e. where the
+buildworld / buildrelease / buildkernel sequence is likely to work and not
+produce something that is unusable or too buggy. Keep in mind that
+"DragonFly_Stable" is a just another tag, so it's not like *BSD's -STABLE.
+You can use this cvsup config file
+obtaining source tagged "DragonFly_Stable" via cvsup.
I get garbage on the screen when I boot or I can't seem to pause at the initial boot menu.
DragonFly, when booting, outputs to both video and serial ports. If the booting computer has a 'noisy' serial device connected, it may read data from it during the boot process. Serial console activation during boot can be disabled by creating the file /boot.config with the contents: '-V'