Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!news5.digex.net!news.cstone.net!not-for-mail From: "Cornerstone Networks" <pauln@cstone.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD Future... Date: 11 Oct 1996 19:01:01 GMT Organization: Cornerstone Networks Lines: 25 Message-ID: <01bbb7a6$c2d34360$2166c5cd@Gosub.cstone.net> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gosub.cstone.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 The FreeBSD guys are doing a great job. You just need to be patient. Haste makes waste. 2.1.5 is a great solution for an ISP, very rock solid! -Paul > Well,I see that the expected release of 2.2 has been pushed back from > late summer '96 to first quarter '97,quite a jump,and I wonder what > more there is to it past Walnut Creek's desire to keep the CDROMs > semi-annual. > > I gather that 2.1.6 will be released on the net only,not on CDROM,so > how would one handle an upgrade from 2.1?(No point in going to > 2.1.5 first if 2.1.6 is coming).How long would I have to take my > ISP down to go to 2.1.6,and get it in shape to honor the 9-12 character > IDs enabled by a kernel recompile for my 2.1??And what would I actually > gain by so doing? > > Which SNAPs of 2.2 will be on the CDROM for SNAP subscribers? > 501 was,626 wasn't,were 801 and 1006? > > For a got-to-stay-up business like an ISP,it might be better to wait > for a 2.2.x after 2.2R gets its bug reports dealt with...I guess > the first such release is at least 9 months off. > > (64-bit 3.x is presumably years away still). >