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From: hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Updating to current
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Date: 16 Dec 1993 23:16:55 GMT
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Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: For those of us with less disk space, is there a binary-only version of
: current available (or better, binary + kernel source)?
Well; there's sort of a binary-only version of current available but it's
not very current. The last time it was updated was August 25th. It's
on:
sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.9/binary
However; I think you'll find that no one really has time to do a
full distribution as often as everyday so if you are unable to do any
work on building it yourself; you'll just have to wait until the next
release. It takes time to do a release and no one is being paid to do
this.
(I believe the purpose of making -current available is to allow people to
do work on the tree. Obviously; providing binary copies of it doesn't really
help anyone do any development.)
(For those who haven't clued in yet; I think you'll find that the above
path will result in something that looks an aweful lot like release 0.9)
[I don't speak for NetBSD.]
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