From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 9:38:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BA137B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12899; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:38:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03410; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:37:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15181.53862.769062.117188@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:37:58 -0600 (MDT) To: bmah@packetdesign.com Cc: Greg Black , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Development for older FreeBSD releases In-Reply-To: <200107112132.f6BLWNb81831@nimitz.packetdesign.com> References: <200107112113.f6BLDgQ81686@nimitz.packetdesign.com> <200107112132.f6BLWNb81831@nimitz.packetdesign.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Building a new development box from a set of 2.2.8 CDs would > > certainly be a simple and guaranteed method if that's an option > > for you. > > Unfortunately it's not guaranteed...a lot of new hardware has been > released since December 1998 (the date of 2.2.8-RELEASE). :-p Why is that important? I've got brand-new boxes running 2.2.8-R w/out any problems. Occasionally I needed to back-port an ethernet driver or fix, but otherwise things work fine. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message