From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Oct 25 17:33:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09357 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09350 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:33:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id UAA09342; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:32:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:32:31 -0500 (EST) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: Greg Lehey cc: "David O'Brien" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's the 3.0 press release? In-Reply-To: <19981026113325.E16609@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA09351 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > Well, one reason might be that people on this list might have > suggestions for improvement. Well as stated below jordan had to be notified and clear it first so he wouldnt wig out about having his name and # attached to this first before I just pasted it everywhere :-) So after Brett T. cleared it with jordan I decided it would be ok to post it. > The more the merrier. True indeed. > agree with Brett that, for a PR, there should be no bullets. I agree > with you that, for Dæmon News, the bullets look OK. Thats why it was meant for BSD news only. So I didnt make the mods brett wanted there. But yes they should be removed if this warps into a PR for 2.2.8 or 3.1. > You can post most things here :-) Well I didnt right off the bat because it had jordans name and work # on it so it had to be cleared with him first. > No bang, please. > 3.0 UNIX operating system. FreeBSD is the fast, powerful, operating > system derived from 4.4BSD UNIX. > o SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) support. > o Sun's WEBNFS standard. > You'll have to delete this. It's not in the release: you can get the > software, but you have to fulfil some conditions (in particular, if > you're a commercial operation, it'll cost you money). > from a.out to ELF. a.out object files are still completely supported. I will submit a revised copy noting the above to brett taylor pronto! Thanks for the feedback! Chris -- "You both seem to be ignoring the fact that the networking market is driven by so-called 'IT professionals' these days, most of whom can't tell the difference between an ARP and a carp." --Wes Peters ===================================| Open Systems FreeBSD Consulting. FreeBSD 3.0 is available now! | Phone: (402)573-9124 / ICQ # 20016186 -----------------------------------| 3335 N. 103 Plaza, Omaha, NE 68134 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting, Network Engineering, Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message