For all of you who are with the FreeBSD project, offering ISO snapshots even of the ongoing, cutting edge development version, has been droped a while ago. If you look at the FTP tree structure at ftp.freebsd.org you'll easily discover a skeleton of the past. I appreciate the reinstallation of that service very much!
By the way, https://www.allbsd.org/ offers you daily snapshots of a lot of recent *BSD operating systems. This great japanese site build every day the sources and publish success or non-success on a very fancy webpage.
And for those who might be scared about the development stage of FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT: I use intensively FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 built with the new native LLVM/CLANG v3.2 for my every day usage in the lab - which means for scientific use, for my day-to-day work and even as a server, providing PostgreSQL 9.2.1 service, Apache 2.22, OpenLDAP 2.4 and other servers I rely on. I'm that risky building close to every second day the OS on the fastest box and I experience only very rarely problems which also could occur in the so beloved Linux environments with faulty updates! Yes, it is a risk, but ...


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