From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 22 19:16:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B744B37B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 31174 invoked by uid 0); 23 Mar 2001 03:16:32 -0000 Received: from p3ee2165a.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.90) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 03:16:32 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10848 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:32:53 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:32:53 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Revised schedule for 4.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <20010323003253.Q20830@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <20010322120409J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010322120409J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:04:09PM -0800 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message