diff -ru parrot-current/docs/gettingstarted.pod parrot-andy/docs/gettingstarted.pod
--- parrot-current/docs/gettingstarted.pod	2009-02-03 10:05:04.000000000 -0500
+++ parrot-andy/docs/gettingstarted.pod	2009-02-03 10:04:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -29,27 +29,12 @@
 
 =item *
 
-The easiest solution is to grab the most recent snapshot of the Parrot SVN
-repository. It's a tar-gzipped download of a recent checkout of Parrot, updated
-every six hours. You can find it here:
-
-L<http://svn.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz>
-
-=item *
-
-Even better is the option to use SVN, which gets you the very latest copy of
-the Parrot distribution. The procedure for this is:
+To check out the current version, use SVN.  The procedure for this is:
 
     svn checkout https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk parrot
 
 =item *
 
-If you're one of those rsync folks, you can access the repository with:
-
-C<rsync -av --delete svn.perl.org::parrot-HEAD parrot>
-
-=item *
-
 If you're using git-svn, you should check out just the latest version. First:
 
 C<< git svn clone -s -r HEAD https://svn.parrot.org/parrot >>