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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 14:49:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        xnet@sprintmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: updating......
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980519144821.27171O-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805191906.OAA20854@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Tue, 19 May 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

> 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.)
> 

They don't AFAIK, which is what I was attempting to clarify for Brenda.


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