Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 01:59:24 +0100 From: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Introduce myself and question about getting CURRENT Message-ID: <AANLkTinqmcnMoQNo6ZrTnXdCLqApybwaVZtbhdD0-1sa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=yKXJ4VsH_NopbYR2NmOrt0cEBEzebqT2EXBit@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=yKXJ4VsH_NopbYR2NmOrt0cEBEzebqT2EXBit@mail.gmail.com>
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Welcome Nerius, hope you enjoy your ride =3D) You can start with download a snapshot of current from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ caontains monthly iso, I use FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201101-i386-dvd1.iso. br, On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, I'd like to contribute to the FreeBSD community by testing > and programming a little in the coming months/years. =A0I'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). =A0I'm also currently involved with > some other open source projects such as GtkRadiant, which is a map > editor for Quake 3 engine games. =A0An 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). =A0The 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. =A0I need to get CURRENT. =A0So, what is > the preferred way to get CURRENT on your system? =A0I'm very familiar > with the whole buildkernel/buildworld mechanism and I intend to > compile CURRENT from source on a continual basis. =A0The only question I > have about this is, is the upgrade 8.2 -> CURRENT a supported upgrade > that will work fairly well? =A0Or are there some CD image ISOs available > for a relatively recent CURRENT? =A0Basically, 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > --=20 //Monthadar Al Jaberi
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