Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

Holger Kipp wrote:
> 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?
> 

Yeah, I realized that I screwed up the math after I sent it out.  I 
actually meant 89, since 2.2.8 was officially released in Nov 1998.  I
think that the CD's were issued a couple of months after that.

> 
>>- - 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.
> 

4GB SCSI drive?  You were a big spender at the time =-D

> 
>>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)?

Have the MicroChannel patents expired yet?

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

Scott