- Snapshots are generated weekly, not monthly.

- Add note about vm images available with snapshots.
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Glen Barber 2013-08-11 16:01:41 +00:00
parent 287b85cce3
commit c65282b0b0
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=42529

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@ -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