9.1 minimal ram requirements

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller23 at insightbb.com> wrote:
>> from Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>:
>>
>>> In an ideal world, the bits that will almost certainly become FreeBSD 9.1
>>> would not appear on the masters, or any of the mirrors, until the same
>>> instant that the release announcement is set to freebsd-announce at FreeBSD.org.
>>
>>> In practice this doesn't happen.  If there is some clever way for that to
>>> happen, we haven't found it yet.
>>
>>> It has happened in the past that even as the release bits were propogating,
>>> One Last Big Bug was found and those bits had to be pulled and re-done.  It
>>> would have looked like you had FreeBSD Release X.Y but you wouldn't have had
>>> the final bits that everyone else did.
>>
>>> I understand your frustration that this process takes days, and in general
>>> the frustration with this particular release -- more than you could possibly
>>> believe.  However, until we figure out the process that would exist in an
>>> ideal world, this is what we have, and so if you need something that will be
>>> in 9.1, your options at this moment are: build an install from 9-STABLE; find
>>> one of the snapshots (and no, I am not the one to ask, sorry); or wait.
>>
>>> Sorry, but that's the best I can offer right now.
>>
>>> mcl
>>
>> So that's why I downloaded-updated source tree using svn, built and installed,
>> and uname -a revealed 9.1-PRERELEASE.  It seemed strange after 9.1-RELEASE
>> became available on FTP servers December 5.  Maybe they can do something to
>> better document "device ctl" in GENERIC; I kept it because it was there, and
>> one is led to think it is needed due to changes in FreeBSD.
>>
>>
>> Tom
>
> Most likely you took the stable/9 aka 9-STABLE sources. They have
> internal name "9.1-PRERELEASE" until the 9.1-RELEASE goes out of the
> door.

Erm too little coffee this early... I should have written "IF" you are
following stable/9 aka 9-STABLE the 9.1-PRERELEASE is what you will
see as the internal name until 9.1-RELEASE is released.