Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:50:13 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Holger Kipp <hk@alogis.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Current' <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released Message-ID: <44302AF5.2040607@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060402192250.GA29100@intserv.int1.b.intern> References: <442EE1D7.90909@samsco.org> <20060402192250.GA29100@intserv.int1.b.intern>
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Holger Kipp wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:25:59PM -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: > > > Ah, at last I can upgrade my old 2.2.8 without hassle. A minor note (maybe > I am getting this wrong): my 2.2.8 is from January 1999, so shouldn't this > be 87 months instead of 77? > Yeah, I realized that I screwed up the math after I sent it out. I actually meant 89, since 2.2.8 was officially released in Nov 1998. I think that the CD's were issued a couple of months after that. > >>- - The 8GB barrier in IDE drive sizes has finally been broken. The wd(4) >> driver now supports unimaginable sizes of 137GB on a single drive! > > > Hmm, the 4GB SCSI is still working fine here - and I still have a spare drive > for replacement, but that is good news anyway. > 4GB SCSI drive? You were a big spender at the time =-D > >>A full description of the release can be found here: >> >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/README.TXT >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/2.2.9-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT > > > Looks okay to me. I am still missing support for IBMs Microchannel, though. > Any chance this will be ready for the next release (2.2.10)? Have the MicroChannel patents expired yet? > > Anyway, thanks a lot to all involved for making FreeBSD even better ;-) > > Regards, > Holger > Scott
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