Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:55:35 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released Message-ID: <4435FED7.8080201@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <200604062326.k36NQxL5037240@fire.jhs.private> References: <200604062326.k36NQxL5037240@fire.jhs.private>
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Julian H. Stacey 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. > > > 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 1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds, 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. > The ISO image is valid, but we didn't do things like bump the version numbers, tag CVS, or build ports. I hand-edited the .TXT files available from FTP, but the same files in the ISO are the stock 2.2.8 ones. However, the release was built from the RELENG_2_2 tree, so it actually does incorporate the small handful of changes that went in after the 2.2.8 tag was laid down. It was a fun little trip in the Way-Back machine, and the announcement email was meant to poke some fun at that. Scott
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