Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:32:53 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Revised schedule for 4.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <20010323003253.Q20830@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20010322120409J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:04:09PM -0800 References: <20010322120409J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:04 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> Why three RC (Release Candidate) builds rather than just one?
> Because it seems that people really tend to test the RCs more
> than the -stable snapshots, which lack ISO images and any real
> sense of collective effort behind them.
Which mirrors will carry the -RC ISO images? I've been trying to
get the one announced here lately and connections were at a few
hundred Bytes/s just to stall quite early (after some fifty KB)
and make the idle hup close the DSL line.
I'd really love to test before release time, but didn't get to
the point where I can install at all. And I haven't seen ISO
images at the local mirrors.
A minimal installation (floppies, bin and crypto) from a German
mirror via ISDN already was a pain to get (a new FTP connection
for every 240 KB ...) and took ages. So I run a 20010319
snapshot without sources, manpages, doc, ports and X -- short of
alternatives. :<
Is this congestion symptomatic for the time around a new release
or something to solve / circumvent?
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