FreeBSD 6.3-RC1发布，7.0发布时间推迟

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Ken Smith has announced the first release candidate for FreeBSD 6.3: "The first of the release candidate builds for FreeBSD 6.3 is now available. There is one more release candidate planned, which will be followed by the release unless a major show-stopper issue crops up during testing. The release branch has been created so if you plan to use cvsup to update an already installed machine you should use the RELENG_6_3 branch. Or you can give FreeBSD Update a try, see the instructions here. The ports folks are getting very close to finishing up the release package builds for a couple of the architectures. I'm planning to fiddle a bit with figuring out the disc1 and disc2 package sets that we will be trying to provide as part of the final release." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5):

        由于在测试过程中发现的问题，我们决定在7.0发布周期中新增加两个 BETA build：BETA3和BETA4，以便进一步排查问题；FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE的预计发布时间，由2007年12月17日推迟至2008年1月14日。

6.3-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (499MB, MD5), 6.3-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (580MB, MD5).