From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 11 16:01:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362FAB81; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:01:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 227C92AAC; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r7BG1gMh015088; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:01:42 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from gjb@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.5/Submit) id r7BG1f2C015087; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:01:41 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201308111601.r7BG1f2C015087@svn.freebsd.org> From: Glen Barber Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:01:41 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42529 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:01:42 -0000 Author: gjb Date: Sun Aug 11 16:01:41 2013 New Revision: 42529 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42529 Log: - Snapshots are generated weekly, not monthly. - Add note about vm images available with snapshots. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Sun Aug 11 15:40:56 2013 (r42528) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Sun Aug 11 16:01:41 2013 (r42529) @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ including HEAD, assuming that the system management interfaces are not used. - In the interim period between releases, monthly snapshots are + In the interim period between releases, weekly snapshots are built automatically by the &os; Project build machines and made available for download from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/. @@ -153,6 +153,18 @@ quality assurance activities ramp up pending a major release. + In addition to installation ISO snapshots, weekly virtual + machine images are also provided for use with + VirtualBox, + qemu, or other popular emulation + software. The virtual machine images can be downloaded from + ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/. + + The virtual machine images are approximately 150MB &man.xz.1; + compressed, and contain a 10GB sparse filesystem when attached to + a virtual machine. + Bug reports and feature requests are continuously submitted by users throughout the release cycle. Problems reports are entered into our GNATS database