Feb 2005 Snapshots for FreeBSD available
Nate Lawson
nate at root.org
Mon Feb 14 22:29:38 PST 2005
Scott Long wrote:
> All,
>
> The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce that snapshots for \
> FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE and 6.0-CURRENT are now available for download. This
> release is the first in a series of monthly snapshots of the active
> branches of the FreeBSD tree. Each snapshot consists of a 'mini-inst'
> (install disc1 without 3rd part packages) CD image for each platform.
> While these are not full releases, the intent is to increase access to
> the development branches and encourage more testing and more feedback.
> We hope to follow on from this with a new snapshot release every month.
>
> Snapshots are available via FTP download from most FreeBSD mirrors at
> the pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/<month>_<year> directory. Information about
> snapshots and pointers to the latest releases are available at
> http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots.
Are there any tags for these? That may be too heavyweight but at least
publishing the exact UTC date for the build would be good. That would
help us track down in bug reports what code the user has, especially
when it's from areas that are under active development.
--
Nate
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