From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 4 10:36:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19214 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA19170 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Message-Id: <199808041736.KAA19170@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 28981 invoked from network); 4 Aug 1998 17:35:31 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 4 Aug 1998 17:35:31 -0000 X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 10:33:30 -0700 To: Spidey , Paul Cartwright From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Older Versions of FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cmsesmi1@livjm.ac.uk In-Reply-To: References: <199808041201.FAA12412@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:11 AM 8/4/98 -0400, Spidey wrote: >This is becoming a FAQ... > >Shouldn't FreeBSD keep copies of older versions around? I don't know the >older versions but if they have lesser hardware requirements (i.e. smaller >RAM, smaller HD Space, smaller CPUs...) they should be left around for >people who want to use a great UNIX and who can't afford a hardware >upgrade... > >Any comments anyone? > They're left around on some of the mirror sites. ftp2.freebsd.org had 2.2.5-R when I was looking for it and the main ftp site had gotten rid of it. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message