From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 9 23: 2:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27A114F37 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:02:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id QAA15787; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:02:33 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E61736.1A8E4EFE@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:54:46 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Steve LaRocca , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K Question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > On 08-Mar-99 Steve LaRocca wrote: > > We are running several instances FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE (SHAZAM) #0: Fri > > May 16 04:30:51 EDT 1997. I've been to the website and read through your > > Y2K compliance information. However, I'm more of the PC Tech, than a > > UNIX tech. My question therefore is this - based on the version that we > > are running, are there any fixes/patches/upgrades necessary for us to > > perform. The BIOS has been checked and passes the Y2K test we are using. > > Please direct your questions to freebsd-questions next time, thanks. > > There have been some efforts by, I thought, Danial Sobral(sp?) on the Y2k > readiness and it is my firm believe that since the 2.2 branch is officially > declared dead to upgrade to 3.1-STABLE which is believed to be very, very > compliant. The spelling of Sobral is correct, but not of Daniel. :-) And there *was* some effort done with respect to Y2K readyness, but it was _not_ by me. I wish I could assign the correct credits, but my memory is failing me. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message