From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 19 12:07:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21384 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21229 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20854; Tue, 19 May 1998 14:06:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805191906.OAA20854@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: updating...... In-Reply-To: from Jeremy Shaffner at "May 19, 98 11:20:00 am" To: jer@jorsm.com (Jeremy Shaffner) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:06:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: xnet@sprintmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Shaffner said: > > Just wanted to clarify for Brenda's sake: > > FreeBSD includes full source code on everything. > > You can modify the the kernel source as you see fit, and compile it and > install it. Or you can keep current by downloading the source from > freebsd.org as Julian said and do the same. You don't just download a > a kernel (the binary file) and install it. > I didn't know that they had pre-built kernels available. You can download the sources for daily (almost) snapshots from current.freebsd.org. This is either available for -current or -stable. (The current.freebsd.org server has a bunch of versions available.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message