From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 08:08:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504CB16A400 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:08:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A9543D45 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:08:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (dqfmhm@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k33887Qd035979 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:08:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k33887vp035978; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:08:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:08:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200604030808.k33887vp035978@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060401182921.09a9a188@lariat.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:08:13 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released! X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:08:23 -0000 Brett Glass wrote: > This is obviously an April Fool's Day joke, but come to think of it, > it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a 2.2.9-RELEASE, with all of the > major bugs and security holes fixed, for embedded systems. It'd > be possible to have a true "Pico" BSD again.... FWIW, 2.2-STABLE is still installed on an old notebook of mine, which has a 486SX-25 processor, 3.5 MB RAM and 120 MB harddisk (that's MB, not GB). It even stops paging a few seconds after the login prompt appears, and it's perfectly usable for typing text on a trip or as an emergency serial console. It's not quite as usable with FreeBSD 3.x or any later version of FreeBSD. I'm not going to update to 2.2.9-Release, though. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Clear perl code is better than unclear awk code; but NOTHING comes close to unclear perl code" (taken from comp.lang.awk FAQ)