Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

2005-07-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:18 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson: (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad* I saw that cuaa got cuad and ucom0 got cuaU0. Now what is the meaning

Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

2005-07-19 Thread David Wolfskill
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:18 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson: (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad*

cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

2005-07-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson: (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad* I saw that cuaa got cuad and ucom0 got cuaU0. Now what is the meaning of cua? tty AFAIK is TeleTYpe... Thanks, -Harry pgp8dSThJXdRN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

2005-07-18 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:18 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson: (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad* I saw that cuaa got cuad and ucom0 got cuaU0. Now what is the meaning of cua? tty AFAIK is TeleTYpe... Call(-out) Unit

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:33:24PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote.. At 1:06 PM +0200 7/16/05, Øystein Holmen wrote: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp-sites og mirrors. Where can I download it?

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:33:24PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote.. At 1:06 PM +0200 7/16/05, Øystein Holmen wrote: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp-sites og mirrors.

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Yann Golanski wrote: Quoth Scott Long on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:18:50 -0600 Part of the purpose of moving quickly on to RELENG_6 is so that the migration work for users from 5.x to 6.x is very small. 6.x is really just an evolutionary step from 5.x, not the

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Carl Gustavsson
Scott Long wrote: Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-16 Thread Øystein Holmen
I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp- sites og mirrors. Where can I download it? Sincerely, Øystein Holmen Den 15. jul. 2005 kl. 12:56 skrev Scott Long: Announcement The FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-16 Thread Andreas Braml
Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 13:06 schrieb Øystein Holmen: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp- sites og mirrors. Where can I download it? http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ At least that's where

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-16 Thread Andreas Braml
Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 13:06 schrieb Øystein Holmen: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp- sites og mirrors. Where can I download it? Forgot that:

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:06 PM +0200 7/16/05, Øystein Holmen wrote: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp-sites og mirrors. Where can I download it? It may have been taken down. There were a few problems with the

FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just skipping 5.x altogether? Or are there such drastic changes in 6.x that doing so at this time wouldn't be

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 16:58 CEST schrieb Marc G. Fournier: And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just skipping 5.x altogether? Or are there such

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Colin Percival
Marc G. Fournier wrote: And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? The FreeBSD Security Team will support FreeBSD 5.x until at least the end of September 2007. Support from other teams and the ports tree may end sooner, but since there aren't very

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Long
Marc G. Fournier wrote: And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just skipping 5.x altogether? Or are there such drastic changes in 6.x that doing so

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Scott Long on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:18:50 -0600 Part of the purpose of moving quickly on to RELENG_6 is so that the migration work for users from 5.x to 6.x is very small. 6.x is really just an evolutionary step from 5.x, not the life-altering revolutionary step that 4.x-5.x was.

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:27:44PM +0100, Yann Golanski wrote: Quoth Scott Long on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:18:50 -0600 Part of the purpose of moving quickly on to RELENG_6 is so that the migration work for users from 5.x to 6.x is very small.

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Linimon
While Scott's and Colin's responses should be viewed as canonical, for the record the place that the support matrix is documented is on the Security web page at http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#adv. Note that this only applies to the _security_ team. Traditionally the ports team has

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 16:58 CEST schrieb Marc G. Fournier: And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 22:12 CEST schrieb Eirik Øverby: On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 16:58 CEST schrieb Marc G. Fournier: And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 15 July 2005 04:53 pm, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 22:12 CEST schrieb Eirik Øverby: On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 16:58 CEST schrieb Marc G. Fournier: And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before