Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:09:47 -0200 From: Gustavo V G C Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current Message-ID: <38793F6B.ED837B48@ddsecurity.com.br> References: <200001100142.CAA76999@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
> Jackson Donadel <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> > Why not install?
>
> Let me quote from the FreeBSD Handbook:
>
> <QUOTE>
>
> 18.1.2. Who needs FreeBSD-current?
>
> FreeBSD-current is made generally available for 3 primary interest
> groups:
> 1. Members of the FreeBSD group who are actively working on some part
> of the source tree and for whom keeping ``current'' is an absolute
> requirement.
> 2. Members of the FreeBSD group who are active testers, willing to
> spend time working through problems in order to ensure that
> FreeBSD-current remains as sane as possible. These are also people
> who wish to make topical suggestions on changes and the general
> direction of FreeBSD.
> 3. Peripheral members of the FreeBSD (or some other) group who merely
> wish to keep an eye on things and use the current sources for
> reference purposes (e.g. for reading, not running). These people
> also make the occasional comment or contribute code.
>
> </QUOTE>
>
> If you still want to install -current, you should read that
> entire chapter of the Handbook.
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
> --
> Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany
> (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
>
> "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"
> (Terry Pratchett)
>
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If you permit, i would like to be in this categ.:
Peripheral members of the FreeBSD (or some other) group who
merely
wish to keep an eye on things and use the current sources
for
reference purposes (e.g. for reading, not running). These
people
also make the occasional comment or contribute code
--
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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