From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 22:18:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82978DBD for ; Thu, 15 May 2014 22:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog103.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog103.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D744B29A0 for ; Thu, 15 May 2014 22:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob103.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKU3U9ALVAy4cOvJZhj4J38f0d1dlExiBD@postini.com; Thu, 15 May 2014 22:18:04 UTC Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id hm4so37437wib.11 for ; Thu, 15 May 2014 15:17:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:date:from:message-id:to:subject:reply-to :in-reply-to; bh=HFbw4XFBB9x4Hv2bNbbvjT9lUdW2dw8UDFznqzXUvIM=; b=hmiwG0c+vPFkhZY373XvzKqPO3NkKQvlnzq5pfZUnYRpVNg4EnqVSMu99m5LbK2IUc HC9Jqa9y96UcBwcGp1zoyAtOuacsJb0kk6Qw5LrhtOu32K1qDYYb4eukfz+iHAqPYujf Vr0/KHI7GuGXHK0ULxntnSU2jA0ND+jL9e1F1JMDbSDDlXNzbKsw2j5LM2ghaO1hnBxM YyDduXGsi8TZaFQs5+YVWqc8imj25H5G97Y4AoLT4mV3f2NxSz3ytF3FYM7VjQrNrN0B szymwFgVtk/xWXeBHwzYn0bEfZbGSRkZEFzfh9r3B0EM1e/2YjxGA71xtufeABVjfc9s qKRg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk0MVURdEBTNrjXZrHGos+FyYg7quN+m4HpQDIopO/ONlcnwhlPmx6FTzf/wbSnpHYpqkAejACmm1WwKgZqcFxfZV5niTdqwrADFTCNcJf8GMgJujmE8nFxCdGow780gSRj/AC3 X-Received: by 10.194.94.71 with SMTP id da7mr4695694wjb.56.1400192255953; Thu, 15 May 2014 15:17:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.194.94.71 with SMTP id da7mr4695691wjb.56.1400192255876; Thu, 15 May 2014 15:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.187.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id be6sm8434061wjb.41.2014.05.15.15.17.34 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 15 May 2014 15:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Anton Shterenlikht Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s4FMHXGl019678 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 May 2014 23:17:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s4FMHXBH019677; Thu, 15 May 2014 23:17:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas) Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 23:17:33 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201405152217.s4FMHXBH019677@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: ia64@freebsd.org, marcel@xcllnt.net Subject: Re: [ia64] End of life... Reply-To: mexas@bris.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <8DB8FBB4-A167-4C20-BC28-583247202EF4@xcllnt.net> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 22:18:05 -0000 Marcel A big thank you for maintaining it all these years. I checked in the ia64 mailing list achives that I started using FreeBSD/ia64 in JUN-2009, so it's nearly 5 years now, almost a generation in computer world. And, oh how much I have learned over these 5 years. Things I probably would have never learned otherwise. The ride was bumpy, but worth every bruise. SCSI, fibre channel, firewalls, web servers, shell, building, patching, rebuilding, firmware updates, backup, recovery, install, compiler options, make, networking, etc. So I owe you personally a big thank you for supporting for so long the platform that gave me this opportunity to explore and learn. Good buy for now and talk to you again! Anton