From nobody Sun Dec 11 09:21:50 2022 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4NVK5t5W7qz4k5HT for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:22:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4f60006ed234b.7aa42f2e8cb0a8ffa75e40df14acd2ee@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4NVK5t0Ws4z3ypV for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:22:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4f60006ed234b.7aa42f2e8cb0a8ffa75e40df14acd2ee@email-od.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1670750530; x=1673342530; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info:subject:to:from:cc:reply-to; bh=AD8FmYKkw0DzjHHLliVqFPFIL+QsjiVtpIMh6vQzLVk=; b=TV42w3fSCA+0yE8M900wMDYS0CrgfJ3KrpJG4SvJzSBlBa1Ur/FWsIDX+T54Wtx/ZLFvXfgrdDgLPfS+8UzUGYjTY+lRNstbOztEQtiB4JCGHJT7PvX4g8W2v4l8cOkdFQD7sYQDOOI0wQO+wqSHFnPisa/oBYDAsOoXShT1/so= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRmNjAwMDZlZDIzNGIucXVlc3Rpb25zPUZyZWVCU0Qub3Jn Received: from r3.h.in.socketlabs.com (r3.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.13]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 11 Dec 2022 04:22:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 11 Dec 2022 04:21:52 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.95 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1p4IWs-00004c-G5; Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:21:50 +0000 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:21:50 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Ian Smith Cc: Polytropon , "Kevin P. Neal" , "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 12.4 disc 1 iso is really large Message-Id: <20221211092150.306e3fbc4af01b2daba4d85d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <4AC6140B-2927-46C4-8405-18FA872DEAB5@gushi.org> <20221209050452.40918a6bcccb953c197ecec6@sohara.org> <20221210072243.9109d9c9.freebsd@edvax.de> <6B0B7DD7-8562-4E77-8809-768DB6E8ADFC@nimnet.asn.au> <20221210182602.002c2c74dfa4797be9c6765a@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0) List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4NVK5t0Ws4z3ypV X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:57:33 +1100 Ian Smith wrote: > On 11 December 2022 5:26:02 am AEDT, Steve O'Hara-Smith > wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 04:47:15 +1100 > > Ian Smith wrote: > [...] > > > Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. > > > Nostalgia was Jordan Hubbard handing me some 1.1 CDs after we > > gave him a free dial up account in Ireland (no way was I going to > > charge *him* > > we were running the ISP on FreeBSD). > > When was that, more or less? That would have been 1994/5 - we were already running 1.1.5.1 by then. > > Nobody ever stepped up to the "voice of FreeBSD" plate after he > > left. > > Not to that extent I guess, though to be fair there are still longterm > heavy hitters on the project, and besides, remembering what the 'B' > stands for: Oh for sure there are - but Jordan was all over USENET, mailing lists and anywhere people who might be interested in FreeBSD hung out answering questions (especially the silly ones nobody else had time for), advocating the principles etc. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/