From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 00:44:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58E6106566C for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:44:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlandys@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC9C8FC0C for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb31 with SMTP id 31so4171487wwb.31 for ; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:44:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=qBRKWZF0uxYcD7rSVDuj7OQS1ZYMNXm7Uv+5K0uowW8=; b=CL5DFYqPb5jKjKAf8036GeahOFjcUjM9YIc73cNjmFWz1UkP7H1ZJOIoJCbgyZx0I1 dP3Vbo0hJ0qATWowXRvmw8mVeQ5dpkcXhjiC/P8F71YAbrwWoJ9FhrTjNAr9Nk/Mcxyn pdIa/dssGbjkHuF5cF9xqE2+zvLSDx61EU/KI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=p5xXZd/uDN6vLNZHalyjwZcHSIQWO4qmLEAE39VX7i7XALmgeNsbQ5ygCuxQxPiBoP WmOYrbU0czKY8OSY3c5cFDZCbbDqbZgN4885BX1mF8t6bDZrlU3TO39pVA/KuweU2a99 ucWjskD/fGY6vsocCglmPC7n9ELfa/x/RankM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.177.199 with SMTP id bj7mr1664861wbb.140.1299370566727; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.30.97 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 16:16:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 16:16:06 -0800 Message-ID: From: Nerius Landys To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Introduce myself and question about getting CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:44:10 -0000 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