Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
- Original Message - From: Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Silves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'FreeBSD Current' freebsd-current@freebsd.org; freebsd-stable freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:43 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released Silves wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: ^^^ It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason for this ? Look at the date on Scott's email. :-) Colin Percival Euh, I tought 1 April whas over and still not trapped on a joke. But now. *nvmd* :-P Harrie Bos ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
Scott, There's something strange with this release. Yesterday it worked fantastic, better than the FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE. Today it refuses to start :-) Jack It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:25:59 -0700 Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN Woah there - does that mean that 1.1.6 might be out soon too ? -- C:WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays The computer obeys and wins.| A better way to focus the sun You lose and Bill collects. |licences available see |http://www.sohara.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
Hi! On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:48:21AM +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN Woah there - does that mean that 1.1.6 might be out soon too ? That will be 1.1.5.2, of course. RELENG_1 is in maintenance mode, now. :-) Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:02:38PM +0200 I heard the voice of Patrick M. Hausen, and lo! it spake thus: That will be 1.1.5.2, of course. RELENG_1 is in maintenance mode, now. Y'know, I DO have a box running RELENG_2_1_0... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:25:59PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: Ah, at last I can upgrade my old 2.2.8 without hassle. A minor note (maybe I am getting this wrong): my 2.2.8 is from January 1999, so shouldn't this be 87 months instead of 77? - - The 8GB barrier in IDE drive sizes has finally been broken. The wd(4) driver now supports unimaginable sizes of 137GB on a single drive! Hmm, the 4GB SCSI is still working fine here - and I still have a spare drive for replacement, but that is good news anyway. A full description of the release can be found here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/README.TXT ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT Looks okay to me. I am still missing support for IBMs Microchannel, though. Any chance this will be ready for the next release (2.2.10)? Anyway, thanks a lot to all involved for making FreeBSD even better ;-) Regards, Holger ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
Holger Kipp wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:25:59PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: Ah, at last I can upgrade my old 2.2.8 without hassle. A minor note (maybe I am getting this wrong): my 2.2.8 is from January 1999, so shouldn't this be 87 months instead of 77? Yeah, I realized that I screwed up the math after I sent it out. I actually meant 89, since 2.2.8 was officially released in Nov 1998. I think that the CD's were issued a couple of months after that. - - The 8GB barrier in IDE drive sizes has finally been broken. The wd(4) driver now supports unimaginable sizes of 137GB on a single drive! Hmm, the 4GB SCSI is still working fine here - and I still have a spare drive for replacement, but that is good news anyway. 4GB SCSI drive? You were a big spender at the time =-D A full description of the release can be found here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/README.TXT ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT Looks okay to me. I am still missing support for IBMs Microchannel, though. Any chance this will be ready for the next release (2.2.10)? Have the MicroChannel patents expired yet? Anyway, thanks a lot to all involved for making FreeBSD even better ;-) Regards, Holger Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:22, Holger Kipp wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:25:59PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY- SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: Ah, at last I can upgrade my old 2.2.8 without hassle. A minor note (maybe I am getting this wrong): my 2.2.8 is from January 1999, so shouldn't this be 87 months instead of 77? The developers were afraid that 2.2.8 might not be solid, so they decided to wait 10 months before updating any of the development or test machines until those using it in production had time to find all the bugs. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
Hello Colin, Saturday, April 1, 2006, 2:43:13 PM, you wrote: Look at the date on Scott's email. :-) Yeah, It's all wrong he set his clock 7 years into the future. -- Best regards, Derekmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.takeda.tk -- RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: Thank you for this. I was beginning to think the 2.2 branch had been abandoned - the mailing lists seem full of references to 5.5 and 6.1 these days. Can you please advise what CVSup tag I should use to upgrade to 2.2.9. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: Thank you for this. I was beginning to think the 2.2 branch had been abandoned - the mailing lists seem full of references to 5.5 and 6.1 these days. Can you please advise what CVSup tag I should use to upgrade to 2.2.9. Hi, I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason for this ? I work with FreeBSD since 3.5 and today my machines are working with 6.0 Thank you FreeBSD Developers for all your work ! I'm proud to say to my friends that i ONLY use FreeBSD on my machines ! Cheers, Silves ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Silves wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: Thank you for this. I was beginning to think the 2.2 branch had been abandoned - the mailing lists seem full of references to 5.5 and 6.1 these days. Can you please advise what CVSup tag I should use to upgrade to 2.2.9. Hi, I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason for this ? Check the date of the announce .. ?:) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
Silves wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: ^^^ It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason for this ? Look at the date on Scott's email. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On 4/1/06, Silves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? The same reason Slashdot is now in purple with the OMG Ponies!!! theme. This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason for this ? Check the date. :) Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Silves wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: Thank you for this. I was beginning to think the 2.2 branch had been abandoned - the mailing lists seem full of references to 5.5 and 6.1 these days. Can you please advise what CVSup tag I should use to upgrade to 2.2.9. Hi, I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason for this ? Check the date of the announce .. ?:) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 Ho ! i understand now ! I can't beleave !! lololol Thanks Scott hehehehe This was really a stupid question ! :-) I was caught ! Thanks guys ! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 06:58:50 +1000, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for this. I was beginning to think the 2.2 branch had been abandoned - the mailing lists seem full of references to 5.5 and 6.1 these days. Can you please advise what CVSup tag I should use to upgrade to 2.2.9. It likes `csv -rApril_Fool' +1+2+3+4+5+6+ NAKAMURA Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today is `1 April 2006' in USA. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
From: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant features in this release: - - XFree86 3.3.3, the industry leader in support for cutting edge PCI graphics adapters and 2D acceleration. - - The 8GB barrier in IDE drive sizes has finally been broken. The wd(4) driver now supports unimaginable sizes of 137GB on a single drive! - - Support for all of the latest high-speed FAST-WIDE (20MB/s) SCSI-2 controllers. - - The Linux emulator is now able to run Quake2 out-of-the-box. A full description of the release can be found here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/README.TXT ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT It won't boot on my Tyan K8W motherboard with two dual Opterons. What should I do! I'm in a panic to get it back on the net. Withdrawal symptoms are setting in. The trembling nifgers has beginned. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
From: Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4/1/06, Silves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being
developed ?
The same reason Slashdot is now in purple with the OMG Ponies!!! theme.
This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ?
Is there any special reason for this ?
Check the date. :)
jdow And just who gets the gotcha here?
{^_^} Joanne, A satisfied customer of Google Romance,
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