From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Apr 22 12:05:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03775 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03770 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA26108 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:05:50 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-970422-RELENG on ftp.freebsd.org (and about SNAP CDs..) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:05:50 -0700 Message-ID: <26106.861735950@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As many of you probably already know, a "SNAP" release is built once per day on the RELENG_2_2 branch (where 2.2.1 came from and from where future 2.2.x releases will be derived) and put up for anonymous FTP at: ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Since this site isn't always the easiest to get to or mirror, I will also periodically copy "known good" release snapshots to ftp.freebsd.org, and that is what I have done today. This release contains all of Justin's latest fixes to the Adaptec 2940 driver and may be a better "installation target" for people creating busy news servers and the like. I will also start putting releases from *both* the 3.0 and 2.2 branches on the Walnut Creek CDROM SNAPshot CDs since we're now going to a 2-CD set on that product and, well, why not? This release is also called "2.2-970422-RELENG" rather than the more traditional "2.2-970422-SNAP" simply to denote the fact that it comes from releng22.freebsd.org and is merely another release in an ongoing daily series of releases, not just an occasional event like a true SNAP would be (and, to answer the next question, the next 3.0 SNAP is coming very soon - I'm still fighting some build issues which should be resolved shortly). Finally, I should note again that since the SNAP CDs are now a 2-CD set and hence more expensive to produce (not so much the cost of the extra CD but the special 2-CD case), the retail price Walnut Creek CDROM will be charging for SNAP CDs *is changing* from $24.95 to $39.95. The subscription price of $14.95 will remain unchanged and makes subscribing to the SNAP an even better deal now since you'll be getting several SNAPs as well as the full, unpacked CVS tree (on the 2nd CD) where I wasn't able to provide it before due to space constraints. Just FYI! Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Apr 22 13:49:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03250 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA03239 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA26650 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:49:12 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: freefall is now a P6/200 with 128MB of memory. Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:49:12 -0700 Message-ID: <26648.861742152@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks to the generous donations of those listed at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/donors.html Freefall.freebsd.org, our venerable P5/90 machine w/64MB memory (which has served us faithfully for these last 3+ years but was seriously running out of steam), is now a Pentium Pro/200Mhz (256K cache) system with 128MB of memory and 12GB of fast disk storage. We expect that this will significantly enhance our development environment, making many of the very expensive CVS operations which brought the old freefall somewhat to its knees significantly less painful. The old freefall has also been renamed to "hub.freebsd.org" and will take over all mailing list duties, thus sparing us from having to fight through that daily load as well. Thanks again to all those who's contributions made this possible! Our first 2 machines were provided through the generosity of Walnut Creek CDROM and now this, our 3rd and most powerful machine, has been provided directly by the users of FreeBSD. I think that's an important milestone! Jordan