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Subject: Re: What's Eating FreeBSD 8?
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> 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.
>   

The ISOs are now available on the main FTP server at
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/

As Kevin said, they are currently finding their way to a mirror near you