What's Eating FreeBSD 8?

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst at sxemacs.org>
> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:14 +1100
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> Just a quick question - what happened to FreeBSD 8.0? I can't even find
> the BETA isos anymore, can't see any RCs, certainly no releases.
> 
> I've been looking forward to 8.0 in i386 to deploy on my laptop and in
> ppc to deploy on my mac because of the new altivec support and various
> other nifty new things i've seen.
> 
> I got shot down in IRC with something about "it'll be out when we stop
> finding huge bugs and critical regressions" - what's going on? 
> 
> In anticipation,
>  -- Horst.

8.0-Release is being distributed to mirrors at this time, so all of the
RCs and BETAs have been pulled. Some mirrors may have 8.0-RELEASE and I
expect 8.0 to be announced very shortly.

Note that I am not in any way involved in the release, but I have seen
the future and it is very near.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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