Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 16:16:06 -0800 From: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Introduce myself and question about getting CURRENT Message-ID: <AANLkTi=yKXJ4VsH_NopbYR2NmOrt0cEBEzebqT2EXBit@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi guys, I'd like to contribute to the FreeBSD community by testing and programming a little in the coming months/years. I'm a mathematician from Berkeley (B.S.), I have been using FreeBSD for about 5 years (on a router and on 2 servers) and I come from a strong programming background (12+ years). I'm also currently involved with some other open source projects such as GtkRadiant, which is a map editor for Quake 3 engine games. An issue in FreeBSD that I'm interested in looking into in the short run is the ath wireless driver situation (I've already contacted Adrian). The two particular issues with the ath driver that I'm currently having may very well already be resolved in CURRENT, so I'm about to test that. Anyhow, first things are first. I need to get CURRENT. So, what is the preferred way to get CURRENT on your system? I'm very familiar with the whole buildkernel/buildworld mechanism and I intend to compile CURRENT from source on a continual basis. The only question I have about this is, is the upgrade 8.2 -> CURRENT a supported upgrade that will work fairly well? Or are there some CD image ISOs available for a relatively recent CURRENT? Basically, I'm about to install CURRENT on a new system that will be used for testing and development, and don't know the preferred way to do this. - Nerius "Rambetter" Landys
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