From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 19:16:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06914 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoebe.accinet.net (root@phoebe.accinet.net [204.245.83.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06818; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:16:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robl@phoebe.accinet.net) Received: from [204.245.83.98] (powerbook.robl.accinet.net [204.245.83.98]) by phoebe.accinet.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA06173; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:07:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802060307.WAA06173@phoebe.accinet.net> Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? Date: Thu, 5 Feb 98 22:08:45 -0500 x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0, March 15, 1997 From: Rob Levandowski To: cc: "George Ellenburg" , , , "Matt Stein" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On 2/5/98 6:55 PM, David Greenman (dg@root.com) wrote: > I think for a statement like that to have any value, it would need to be >backed up by a commercial organization. For that, Walnut Creek CDROM has >been advertising that FreeBSD is Y2K compliant since at least last fall >when it was stated on the Comdex show banners. > The closest I can get to the statement you are asking for is "We believe, >but cannot guarantee, that FreeBSD is Y2K compliant. We've spent a >significant >amount of time verifying this to be the case, but it is possible that >something >may have been overlooked. If a Y2K bug is found in the future, we will >attempt >to fix it as soon as possible". Thank you. That's precisely the kind of thing I was looking for. It would probably help others in my position if such a statement were put up on for easy retrieval. :) Robert Levandowski UNIX Systems Administrator ACC TeleCom robl@phoebe.accinet.net