Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:02:54 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 8.1 is available Message-ID: <AANLkTi=CKqRcFv2f=1e_C%2B8AjxhSd-9a2=HYEiiHET3u@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C4B764A.3060808@a1poweruser.com> References: <AANLkTikhd8ZeGUi9MGs7_ZBXSKpUk26=ar_zea-SXwOg@mail.gmail.com> <4C4B764A.3060808@a1poweruser.com>
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On 7/24/10, Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > b. f. wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:38:51PM +0800, Aiza wrote: > > What I am wondering is why the release iso have been renamed. The path > and file name was to long before and now with 8.1 some fool added the > word Freebsd to it. What on earth for? How many times does the word > freebsd have to be in the path/name? Wish somebody would supervise the > worker bees so they don't go changing thing on their own. That was because a lot of people with a different opinion about this complained, so that re@ was persuaded to make the change: >Revision 200775 - (view) (annotate) - [select for diffs] >>Modified Mon Dec 21 14:42:35 2009 UTC (7 months ago) by kensmith File length: 45736 byte(s) >Diff to previous 197313 > >Add "FreeBSD-" to the beginning of the filenames for the ISO images. >People who collect ISOs from more than just us have been requesting >this for a while. > >MFC after: 1 week It seems reasonable to me, even if it does require a few (possibly annoying) one-time-only adjustments for some people. b.
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