Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:48:10 +0000 From: Paul Wootton <paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: freeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's Eating FreeBSD 8? Message-ID: <4B0E088A.10204@fletchermoorland.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091126042855.11FE71CC0E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20091126042855.11FE71CC0E@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> >> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:14 +1100 >> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >> >> Hi all. >> >> Just a quick question - what happened to FreeBSD 8.0? I can't even find >> the BETA isos anymore, can't see any RCs, certainly no releases. >> >> I've been looking forward to 8.0 in i386 to deploy on my laptop and in >> ppc to deploy on my mac because of the new altivec support and various >> other nifty new things i've seen. >> >> I got shot down in IRC with something about "it'll be out when we stop >> finding huge bugs and critical regressions" - what's going on? >> >> In anticipation, >> -- Horst. >> > > 8.0-Release is being distributed to mirrors at this time, so all of the > RCs and BETAs have been pulled. Some mirrors may have 8.0-RELEASE and I > expect 8.0 to be announced very shortly. > > Note that I am not in any way involved in the release, but I have seen > the future and it is very near. > The ISOs are now available on the main FTP server at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ As Kevin said, they are currently finding their way to a mirror near you
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