Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released!

Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:
 > This is obviously an April Fool's Day joke, but come to think of it,
 > it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a 2.2.9-RELEASE, with all of the
 > major bugs and security holes fixed, for embedded systems. It'd
 > be possible to have a true "Pico" BSD again....

FWIW, 2.2-STABLE is still installed on an old notebook of
mine, which has a 486SX-25 processor, 3.5 MB RAM and 120 MB
harddisk (that's MB, not GB).  It even stops paging a few
seconds after the login prompt appears, and it's perfectly
usable for typing text on a trip or as an emergency serial
console.  It's not quite as usable with FreeBSD 3.x or any
later version of FreeBSD.

I'm not going to update to 2.2.9-Release, though.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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