On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Bob Beck wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A number of you may have noticed the recent flurry of activity,
>leading to stuff like bigmem being turned on.. Some more good stuff is
>coming soon (my amd64 at my house is using 7 gigabyes of memory for
>buffer cache, and I'm doing builds without touching disks..). Some
>really cool stuff is being worked on and is coming to a source tree
>near you soon.
>
> However, I'd like to take the opportunity to remind you all, that
>the project does depend on CD and shirt sales to keep it alive. Yes
>you may not use a CD all the time, but the latest one is pretty cool.
>
> So, short answer? go buy a CD. pre-orders are a little slow this
>release, and we need to see some more activity in that area.
This may tie in to something I've noticed -- it's less than two weeks to
the official release date of 4.9 but there's no sign that the CDs are
shipping yet. While there's no obligation for them to arrive before
that date, usually we hear earlier than this that they're shipping. Is
there some delay?
> Then maybe I'll stop worrying about it and commit that thing that
>will make your amd64 use even more buttloads of memory too!
>
> So - yes we like donations, but we also like CD sales.. now is the
>time to help out.
My set was ordered as soon as the order page went up, but (since, for
the first time in far too long, I've got some spare cash) I'll see about
also making a donation.
Not that I have any particular standing, but FWIW, y'all please order a
CD set if you haven't already done so. OpenBSD has served me well for
quite a few years, and I'd really like to see it continue -- and
continue to improve.
Dave
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Dave Anderson
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