Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 11:33:09 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0 release candidate now up for FTP - come and get it! Message-ID: <304.950124789@zippy.cdrom.com>
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We're now 21 days from the official release of 4.0 and I've just finished uploading the 4.0 release candidate I promised everyone, complete with ISO images for both the Alpha and x86 architectures (BOTH should be bootable, so Alpha people should definitely try to install directly from these ISOs if they can lay their hands on a burner and a fast Internet connection). These are true release candidates, with full XFree86 3.3.6 and package bits, and I encourage people to test the heck out of them. I'd also like to thank two people who don't get enough acknowledgement in this process: Steve Price <steve@freebsd.org> and Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org>. They provide the precompiled packages which go into these releases and, now that the ports collection has grown past 3000 ports (largely Steve's fault again), this has become an even more significant yet still largely thankless job. Let's at least try and solve the latter problem by taking this opportunity to give them a big round of thanks! I'd also like to thank Brian McGovern's newly-formed QA team (freebsd-qa@freebsd.org) for bringing more organized quality assurance to this process. They've only just started to ramp up their operations, but already I've gotten a lot of good feedback from them and look forward to working closely with them in the future. Usual feedback and kvetching to me and/or current@freebsd.org please. We have 21 more days to round off the sharp edges with 4.0 and I strongly encourage everyone to not wait until the last minute. I will, at most, be doing only one more release candidate before 4.0 is declared officially released and it becomes a little late to fix it. For direct FTP installations, please see: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/{i386,alpha}/4.0-20000208-CURRENT If you're looking for installable ISO images, please see: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/4.0-20000208-CURRENT Thanks! - Jordan This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message
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