From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 6 23:26:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0FD16A402 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:26:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from thin.berklix.org (thin.berklix.org [194.246.123.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE0143D46 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A72FE.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.114.254]) (authenticated bits=128) by thin.berklix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k36NQUeh019078 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:26:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k36NQLWr008947 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:26:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost.jhs.private [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k36NQxL5037240 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:26:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200604062326.k36NQxL5037240@fire.jhs.private> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:26:59 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:26:35 -0000 > 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. I was away over 1st April, & came back to a backlog of mail when 1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds, & found the announcement rather weird but not necessarily totaly daft ;-) ... FreeBSD-2.X is really obsolete, but some of us occasionaly keep/ resuscitate obsolete hardware (eg for vintage purposes http://vcfe.org/E/ ), one example: between FreeBSD-2 & 3 I think support for some old 8 bit scsi controllers was dumped, so old software can be attractive. So I checked on FTP site: no CHECKSUM.MD5, just a single file, 142 Meg ( 142 186 496 ) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/2.2.9/2.2.9-RELEASE.iso That .iso contains 620 files, I didnt try running it [yet .. maybe] If it's some silly spoof, its quite elaborately big, if so, I'd suggest reduce to a README to save a lot of mirror space & bandwidth. Either way, a CHECKSUM.MD5 would be good. -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = meine allergischen Kopfschmerzen.