FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

[Julian H. Stacey]

> 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1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds,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.

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Julian Stacey.  Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich.  http://berklix.com
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