From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 19 12:49:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01439 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:49:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01411; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA13243; Tue, 19 May 1998 14:49:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:49:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: "John S. Dyson" cc: xnet@sprintmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating...... In-Reply-To: <199805191906.OAA20854@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message