Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:01:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42529 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng Message-ID: <201308111601.r7BG1f2C015087@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb Date: Sun Aug 11 16:01:41 2013 New Revision: 42529 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42529 Log: - Snapshots are generated weekly, not monthly. - Add note about vm images available with snapshots. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Sun Aug 11 15:40:56 2013 (r42528) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.xml Sun Aug 11 16:01:41 2013 (r42529) @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ including <emphasis>HEAD</emphasis>, assuming that the system management interfaces are not used.</para> - <para>In the interim period between releases, monthly snapshots are + <para>In the interim period between releases, weekly snapshots are built automatically by the &os; Project build machines and made available for download from <systemitem class="resource">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/</systemitem>. @@ -153,6 +153,18 @@ quality assurance activities ramp up pending a major release.</para> + <para>In addition to installation ISO snapshots, weekly virtual + machine images are also provided for use with + <application>VirtualBox</application>, + <application>qemu</application>, or other popular emulation + software. The virtual machine images can be downloaded from + <systemitem + class="resource">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/</systemitem>.</para>; + + <para>The virtual machine images are approximately 150MB &man.xz.1; + compressed, and contain a 10GB sparse filesystem when attached to + a virtual machine.</para> + <para>Bug reports and feature requests are continuously submitted by users throughout the release cycle. Problems reports are entered into our <application class="software">GNATS</application> database
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