5.3 RELEASE downloaded

Nikolas Britton freebsd at nbritton.org
Sat Nov 6 15:19:55 PST 2004


peter lageotakes wrote:

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>Just a guess here:  It is probably best to wait for
>FreeBSD.org to announce the release, for a couple of
>reasons.
>1) Allow the ISO to propgate to the various mirrors so
>that the loads can be distributed evenly between all
>servers.
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Yes this is the main reason. but I was running RC2 so I just had to 
cvsup the new src and rebuild the world.
Also I remember hearing the other day on this list that there will be an 
offical (or at least semi-offical) BitTorrent download.

>2) Just in case there might be a recall on the ISO.
>This would be doubtful but no the less a possiblility.
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>Just a thought,
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>Pete
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