Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:04:15 -0600
> From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> Scott Long wrote:
> > 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 1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds,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
> 
> Btw, Ruslan Ermilov was the creative force behind all of this, he 
> deserves 99% of the credit.

While I'm sure Ruslan was involved, I suspect that the real credit
belongs to Sniffy The Wonder Cat. I know that my cat, Sam, has had input
on a lot of my work, but his code seems even less well structured than
mine and is very poorly formatted. Clearly Sniffy is much better at it.
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