In reply to Tony Sanders who said
>
> Paul Richards writes:
> > In reply to Ben Laurie who said
> > >
> > > In fact, I've found it at ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/gnu/prep. Version 1.6 -
> > > any guesses as to whether that's up to date? (Hmmm ... 2.3 kB/s - not too
> > > bad for the Internet).
> >
> > That's up to date.
>
> Jeff Polk says that 1.6 still has various core dumps.
FreeBSD still has something like 1.4 I think (maybe even 1.3) since
it's too critical to us to keep on the leading edge.
>
> Though he also says that it is livable and has some nice features
> and perfomance improvements so it might still be worth using it.
>
Peter Wemm now maintains FreeBSD's repository and he's said similar
things about the latest release which he's played with on a test box.
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