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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!agate!usenet From: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce Subject: Status of 386BSD FTP Site on agate.berkeley.edu Followup-To: poster Date: 1 Nov 1993 19:41:25 -0800 Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 34 Approved: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <2b4kt5$aki@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu Summary: It's going away on 12/1/93, barring serious objections Keywords: 386BSD, ftp, archive, bye-bye Barring serious objections, the 386BSD FTP Site on agate.berkeley.edu will be disappearing on December 1, 1993. There are several reasons for this: (1) the 386BSD ftp site is taking up approximately 120M of disk space, which can be better used for other things. (2) the 386BSD 0.1 release is no longer very useful; it is old, and newer, more stable and usable releases have been made. (3) For all intents and purposes, 386BSD 0.1 is 'unsupported'. There was an unofficial patch kit at one point, but that has since been abandoned, and support by the author has always been minimal. Therefore, considering that 386BSD 0.1 has little futher useful purpose, is unsupported and only marginally usable, that we need the disk space, and that there are better alternatives available, I propose that it is yanked from the agate.berkeley.edu ftp site. If you have comments on this, please send them to me, and i will take them into consideration. thanks, chris maintainer of the *BSD ftp site on agate.berkeley.edu, and moderator of comp.os.386bsd.announce. -- Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu