FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 available

All,

if you followed the development of FreeSBIE 2.0 a bit, you should remember that, back in Semptember, I said that FreeSBIE 2.0 would have been the last of a series of four ISO images. Three images were already published: FreeSBIE GMV back in August, FreeSBIE LVC in October, FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA in November. Well, circustamces make me release a fourth ISO image which is *not* FreeSBIE 2.0, but FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 (Release Candidate 1). This is due to the number of bugs which had been fixed after 2.0-BETA was released. If no major bugs are found, FreeSBIE 2.0 is going to be released not too long after FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE has been released. Hopefully you will be able to put a FreeSBIE 2.0 CD-ROM under your Christmas tree. :)

FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 is based on the RELENG_6_2 branch of the FreeBSD source tree and on the RELEASE_6_2_0 branch of the ports tree.

Testing the ISO image, finding bugs and reporting them back to me or to the freesbie at gufi.org mailing list are the foci for those who want to give this ISO image a try, and I hope many of you will. There is still a lot of free space on the ISO image, so feel free to suggest additional software to include.

FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 can be downloaded from our mirrors:

ftp://ftp.freesbie.org/pub/Freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp2.freesbie.org/pub/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp.gr.freesbie.org/pub/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp.be.freesbie.org/pub/freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp2.ie.freesbie.org/pub/freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp.fr.freesbie.org/freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp8.de.freesbie.org/unix/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1

MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:

MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0-RC1-20061123.iso) = 9dfced489f6fd083f10b14e23c25079

Thank you in advance for testing FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1

FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA (EW) is available!

So, gears are warming up for the release of FreeSBIE 2.0, more than a year and half after FreeSBIE 1.1 had been released. Yesterday FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA, codename EW was released. Read the full announcement.

FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA (EW) is near

Despite the fact that I should study, my machine is building one or FreeSBIE ISO images every day.

Testing is going on to have a good FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA, so that we can release FreeSBIE 2.0 right after the RELENG_6_2 src branch was (has been?..native speakers, help!) created. I know you readers want a precise date. Well, I would say:"next week". Is this enough for you? ;)