Ken Smith, FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer, has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.1/8.2 RC1 to the community and now available for download and test.
According to the release announcement the first release candidate of FreeBSD 7.4/8.2 is already available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 with additional support ia64 and powerpc architecture for the FreeBSD 8.2.
Here is the release announcement:
The first Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 7.4/8.2 release cycle is now available. For 7.4-RC1 the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available, for 8.2-RC1 those architectures plus ia64 and powerpc are available. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP based installs through the network are available on the FreeBSD mirror sites. Checksums for the images are at the bottom of this message.
For this Release Candidate no packages (except for the doc package set for 8.2-RC1) have been provided in any of the images. Packages will be provided with the RC2 builds.
For those of you that want to download and test the RC1 release, the iso image can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/where.html.
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