svn commit: r42529 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 11 16:01:42 UTC 2013
Author: gjb
Date: Sun Aug 11 16:01:41 2013
New Revision: 42529
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42529
Log:
- Snapshots are generated weekly, not monthly.
- Add note about vm images available with snapshots.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Sun Aug 11 15:40:56 2013 (r42528)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Sun Aug 11 16:01:41 2013 (r42529)
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
including <emphasis>HEAD</emphasis>, assuming that the system
management interfaces are not used.</para>
- <para>In the interim period between releases, monthly snapshots are
+ <para>In the interim period between releases, weekly snapshots are
built automatically by the &os; Project build machines and made
available for download from <systemitem
class="resource">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/</systemitem>.
@@ -153,6 +153,18 @@
quality assurance activities ramp up pending a major
release.</para>
+ <para>In addition to installation ISO snapshots, weekly virtual
+ machine images are also provided for use with
+ <application>VirtualBox</application>,
+ <application>qemu</application>, or other popular emulation
+ software. The virtual machine images can be downloaded from
+ <systemitem
+ class="resource">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/</systemitem>.</para>
+
+ <para>The virtual machine images are approximately 150MB &man.xz.1;
+ compressed, and contain a 10GB sparse filesystem when attached to
+ a virtual machine.</para>
+
<para>Bug reports and feature requests are continuously submitted by
users throughout the release cycle. Problems reports are entered into our
<application class="software">GNATS</application> database
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