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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:33:16 +0300
From:      "K.R." <spambox@haruhiism.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's Eating FreeBSD 8?
Message-ID:  <4B0E9FBC.1000100@haruhiism.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091126042855.11FE71CC0E@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20091126042855.11FE71CC0E@ptavv.es.net>

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On 26.11.2009 7:28, 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.
>    
I'm perfectly sure I downloaded a complete set of 8.0 ISO images off the 
official BitTorrent tracker *two* days ago.

See http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

--
Kamigishi REi
KREI-RIPE
http://fujibayashi.jp



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