From jcamou@cox.net Sat Aug 21 02:11:20 2004
Return-Path: Detailed descriptions of past, present, and future releases. Look here
- first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is. The release information page
+ provides detailed descpriptions of past, present, and future releases.
+ Look here first to determine what the lastest version of FreeBSD is. There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation
- from CDROM, floppy disk, an MS-DOS partition, magnetic tape, anonymous
- ftp, and NFS. Please read through the installation guide before downloading
- the entire FreeBSD distribution. If you are installing on a machine
- connected to the Internet, you may only need to download a single
- installation disk image! There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation from CDROM,
+ floppy disk, an MS-DOS partition, magnetic tape, anonymous ftp, and NFS.
+ Please read through the
+ installation guide before downloading the entire FreeBSD distribution.
+ If you are installing on a machine connected to the Internet, you may only
+ need to download a single installation disk image! The official sources for FreeBSD are:Release Information
-
- Release Information
+
+ Installing FreeBSD
+ Installing FreeBSD
- Distribution Sites
+ Distribution Sites
If you're interested in a purely experimental snapshot - release of FreeBSD-current (AKA &rel.current;-current), aimed at developers and + release of FreeBSD-CURRENT (AKA &rel.current;-CURRENT), aimed at developers and bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the daily snapshot server FTP site.
-The FreeBSD packages collection is a diverse collection of utility and application software that has been ported to FreeBSD. The packages are pre-compiled binaries ready to drop into your system and run.
The Ports collection is like the packages collection, but the necessary patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided instead of @@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ the article Contributing to FreeBSD.
-Beginning with FreeBSD Release 2.0.5, FreeBSD includes demo versions of some commercial as well as some shareware --- where.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: sem State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 21 10:51:18 GMT 2004 State-Changed-Why: Committed, thanks! http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=70751 State-Changed-From-To: closed->open State-Changed-By: sem State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 21 10:51:47 GMT 2004 State-Changed-Why: Closed by accident. Reopen. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=70751 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: jcamou State-Changed-When: Thu Mar 3 00:14:17 GMT 2005 State-Changed-Why: simon committed some changes inspired by this pr. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=70751 >Unformatted: