On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:58:40AM +0100, Keith wrote: > Seeing that orders are being taken for the 4.8 release got me thinking > about purchasing a copy, I don't need a copy on CD so just a download > for my architecture would be fine. In the past I've sent a small donated > to the project and was wondering if there's way that I could buy the > right to download the OS before the official release.
In reality, you already can; at no point is there code that's being "held out" for the CD release that isn't already in cvs; grabiing a -current snapshot from a period of time reasonably near the tree unlock that happens each cycle should be close enough for anything that doesn't require soothing some sort of OCD. > > Personally I would happily pay the same as the full CD costs and > probably some more to just download the OS and the project would save on > the production of the CD and the postage. > > I'd defiantly pay for 802.11G, hope that it's working in this release. > > Keith