Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > I know that current snapshots should not be used in any production purposes > . > > My intention was only to install it , run some programs , and if I get a > feeling that supplying an information to current developers may be useful to > send an e-mail about my experiences . > > I think such installation and test results would be useful to current > developers if I am not wrongly assumed that . Feedback is always appreciated. If you'd like to work with -CURRENT, you should definitely learn how to use the FreeBSD "ports" system, which builds third-party software from source. As I mentioned earlier, "packages" are not always available for -CURRENT. The FreeBSD -CURRENT snapshot DVDs are actually a pretty tough place to start. They are automatically generated from whatever happens to be in SVN that day; as a result, they're mostly useful as a regular test of the release-building scripts and somewhat useful for testing the installer. For testing the rest of the system, I suggest that you learn how to update the core system from source code. There are quite a few articles and blog posts explaining how to do this. It also helps to watch the freebsd-current mailing list so you know when things are relatively calm. TimReceived on Mon May 11 2009 - 18:10:43 UTC
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