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

-- 
Matteo Riondato
FreeBSD Committer (http://www.freebsd.org)
G.U.F.I. Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org)
FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)