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From: Holger Kipp <hk@alogis.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released
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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?

> - - 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.

> 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)?

Anyway, thanks a lot to all involved for making FreeBSD even better ;-)

Regards,
Holger