Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:36:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Tell the world about Year 2000 Compliance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971119152934.14760C-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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There's a lot of hype about Year 2000 Compliance around here, Walnut Creek CDROM fall 1997-1998 catalog has a little red box on the FreeBSD page which says FreeBSD is "Year 2000 Compliant!" There's no obvious mention of this in the FreeBSD documentation, and I don't see anything similar on the website. For 'IT professionals' (IT Managers of non-IT related businesses) Year 2000 compliance is now very important when deciding if they want to do business or not. This is IMHO a MAJOR plus for FreeBSD, it would be very nice to see some information about Year 2000 compliance on the main website. Perhaps the same graphic as in the WCDROM catalog at the bottom of the webpage with apache, ugu, walnut creek logos. Also some mention of what on earth Year 2000 compliance is on both the webpages and in the online docs (man/info pages). I've sent this to -chat because there's so much uncertainty about what year 2000 compliance is and what will happen in 2000 (even wether it's a leap year or not). And it doesn't really belong anywhere else. Finally, what's being done (if any?) to insure that FreeBSD _IS_ and _REMAINS_ Year 2000 compliant... e.g. New packages/ports etc. Steve -- Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/
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