FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 Available DISPONIBILE download free

The second of the Release Candidate builds for the 9.0-RELEASE release
cycle is now available. Since this is the first release of a brand
new branch I cross-post the announcements on both -current and -stable.
But just so you know most of the developers active in head and stable/9
pay more attention to the -current mailing list. If you notice problems
you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the
-current mailing list.

At the current plans are for one more RC build, which will be followed
by the release. The 9.0-RELEASE cycle will be tracked here:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO

NOTE: The location of the FTP install tree and ISOs is the same as it
had been for BETA2/BETA3/RC1, though we are still deciding if this will
be the layout we switch to for the release.

ISO images for the following architectures are available, with pathnames
given relative to the top-level of the FTP site:

amd64: .../releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
i386: .../releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
ia64: .../releases/ia64/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
powerpc: .../releases/powerpc/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
powerpc64: .../releases/powerpc/powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
sparc64: .../releases/sparc64/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/

MD5/SHA256 checksums are tacked on below.

If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to access the source
tree the branch tag to use is now "RELENG_9_0", if you use "." (head)
you will get 10-CURRENT. If you would like to access the source tree
via SVN it is "svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.0/". We still have
the nit that the creation of a new SVN branch winds up causing what
looks like a check-in of the entire tree in CVS (a side-effect of the
svn2cvs exporter) so "mergemaster -F" is your friend if you are using
csup/cvsup.