Re: Introduce myself and question about getting CURRENT

Welcome Nerius, hope you enjoy your ride =)

You can start with download a snapshot of current from:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/

caontains monthly iso, I use FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201101-i386-dvd1.iso.

br,

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Nerius Landys <nlandys_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, I'd like to contribute to the FreeBSD community by testing
> and programming a little in the coming months/years.  I'm a
> mathematician from Berkeley (B.S.), I have been using FreeBSD for
> about 5 years (on a router and on 2 servers) and I come from a strong
> programming background (12+ years).  I'm also currently involved with
> some other open source projects such as GtkRadiant, which is a map
> editor for Quake 3 engine games.  An issue in FreeBSD that I'm
> interested in looking into in the short run is the ath wireless driver
> situation (I've already contacted Adrian).  The two particular issues
> with the ath driver that I'm currently having may very well already be
> resolved in CURRENT, so I'm about to test that.
>
> Anyhow, first things are first.  I need to get CURRENT.  So, what is
> the preferred way to get CURRENT on your system?  I'm very familiar
> with the whole buildkernel/buildworld mechanism and I intend to
> compile CURRENT from source on a continual basis.  The only question I
> have about this is, is the upgrade 8.2 -> CURRENT a supported upgrade
> that will work fairly well?  Or are there some CD image ISOs available
> for a relatively recent CURRENT?  Basically, I'm about to install
> CURRENT on a new system that will be used for testing and development,
> and don't know the preferred way to do this.
>
> - Nerius "Rambetter" Landys
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