Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:28:55 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: freeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's Eating FreeBSD 8? Message-ID: <20091126042855.11FE71CC0E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:14 %2B1100." <1259209094.12131.3513.camel@horst-tla>
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> From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:14 +1100 > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Hi all. > > Just a quick question - what happened to FreeBSD 8.0? I can't even find > the BETA isos anymore, can't see any RCs, certainly no releases. > > I've been looking forward to 8.0 in i386 to deploy on my laptop and in > ppc to deploy on my mac because of the new altivec support and various > other nifty new things i've seen. > > I got shot down in IRC with something about "it'll be out when we stop > finding huge bugs and critical regressions" - what's going on? > > In anticipation, > -- Horst. 8.0-Release is being distributed to mirrors at this time, so all of the RCs and BETAs have been pulled. Some mirrors may have 8.0-RELEASE and I expect 8.0 to be announced very shortly. Note that I am not in any way involved in the release, but I have seen the future and it is very near. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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