4.8-RELEASE

[Ken Mays]

You can download the 'release' ISO at your own risk. Meaning, without
official acknowledgement that you are getting the 'true' official release
then you can't hold them liable if you put this on your production machines
and something goes terribly wrong (i.e. loss of data).

Sometimes, people can put a release snapshot or official release on the FTP
site to test builds or mirroring or for the QA/testers to use as a
'pre-RTM'.

But, people have a good point. You shouldn't label something as release
since you KNOW it will confuse anyone visiting the FTP servers. We normally
would think that the web pages were not updated (this happens on the
slackware site as well as others) and try to download the ISO before the
offical announcement. Human nature.

So the question of the day could be: Is the ISO images of 4.8 the
'released-to-manufacturing (vendors/retailers)' or 'official release'
versions and not pre-RTM (beta) code?!?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgi Hristov" <tweaky_81 at yahoo.com>
To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcel at xcllnt.net>
Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:44 PM
Subject: 4.8-RELEASE


> If the release is not ready, why don't the webmaster
> update the site to reflect this. Just couple more days
> like they usually do. So people don't get confused. I
> am not sure yet ... is it ready ot not ... is it final
> or not ... yes it exist on the ftp server, however
> there is no PGP signed email from RE  to acknoledge
> this.
>
> So what is it ... yes, no, maybe ... :)
>
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