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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
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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 .. ?:)

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