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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:29:09 -0200
From:      "Jackson Donadel" <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: current
Message-ID:  <002d01bf5b12$7ec8efe0$8b31f8c8@void.net>
References:  <200001100142.CAA76999@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <38793F6B.ED837B48@ddsecurity.com.br>

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----- Original Message -----
From: Gustavo V G C Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: current


> 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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