From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 18:26:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B9814CEB for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:25:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA06996; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:24:41 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990302191923.00b4e690@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:20:26 -0700 To: dannyman From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990302200412.H15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <4.1.19990302183847.00a22f00@localhost> <4.1.19990302181700.00c56d10@localhost> <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost> <4.1.19990302154522.03fb3730@localhost> <19990302184424.C15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> <4.1.19990302181700.00c56d10@localhost> <19990302192729.D15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> <4.1.19990302183847.00a22f00@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:04 PM 3/2/99 -0600, dannyman wrote: >> Again, there ought to be a way to get the most up-to-date ports for any >> RELEASE version that's up to a year old. > >Then by all means, please step up and make it so! You could be to 2.2.6 users >what Rocky Mountain Motorworks is to old Volkswagen owners. If you're willing >to do the work and find the needed volunteers to help you ports ports to older >ports trees, then I'm sure you'll have FreeBSd's blessing and tacit support. > >Otherwise, you've been told we don't have the resources, And I'm telling you that you don't NEED special resources if you just use your noggin (and avoid those funny 'shrooms you mentioned in your posting earlier ;-). --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message