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
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