Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:29:09 -0200 From: "Jackson Donadel" <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: current Message-ID: <002d01bf5b12$7ec8efe0$8b31f8c8@void.net> References: <200001100142.CAA76999@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <38793F6B.ED837B48@ddsecurity.com.br>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Gustavo V G C Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 12:09 AM Subject: Re: current > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > Jackson Donadel <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br> wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > > Why not install? > > > > Let me quote from the FreeBSD Handbook: > > > > <QUOTE> > > > > 18.1.2. Who needs FreeBSD-current? > > > > FreeBSD-current is made generally available for 3 primary interest > > groups: > > 1. Members of the FreeBSD group who are actively working on some part > > of the source tree and for whom keeping ``current'' is an absolute > > requirement. > > 2. Members of the FreeBSD group who are active testers, willing to > > spend time working through problems in order to ensure that > > FreeBSD-current remains as sane as possible. These are also people > > who wish to make topical suggestions on changes and the general > > direction of FreeBSD. > > 3. Peripheral members of the FreeBSD (or some other) group who merely > > wish to keep an eye on things and use the current sources for > > reference purposes (e.g. for reading, not running). These people > > also make the occasional comment or contribute code. > > > > </QUOTE> > > > > If you still want to install -current, you should read that > > entire chapter of the Handbook. > > > > Regards > > Oliver > > > > -- > > Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany > > (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) > > > > "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" > > (Terry Pratchett) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > If you permit, i would like to be in this categ.: > > Peripheral members of the FreeBSD (or some other) group who > merely > wish to keep an eye on things and use the current sources > for > reference purposes (e.g. for reading, not running). These > people > also make the occasional comment or contribute code > > -- > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. > -- George Bernard Shaw > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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