Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:33:20 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary of final changes to FreeBSD 2.2.7 Message-ID: <19980724093320.A9448@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <35B8AA50.E49392DE@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 09:37:52AM -0600 References: <11967.901261832@time.cdrom.com> <35B8AA50.E49392DE@softweyr.com>
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On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 09:37:52AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: >Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> >> As I previously announced, there were some problems encountered with >> sysinstall in the 11th hour during our CDROM media testing which I >> fixed, rolled an updated boot.flp for, and uploaded to the master FTP >> site. >> >> I also fixed a problem I introduced at the last minute via a fumbled >> file copy which caused the XF86Setup utility to be replaced by the >> Japanese version (heh). In addition to this, I've just received >> updated distribution tarballs from The XFree86 Project which merge all >> of the 3.3.2.3 security updates directly into the "standard" tarballs >> rather than having an extra update file (X3323upd.tgz) which needed to >> be applied by hand. In other words, it's totally plug-and-play now. >> Just install XFree86 as you normally would to get the latest security >> fixes and the correct setup utility for your language. Since the >> X332*upd.tgz files are now obsolete, they have also been removed. >> >> My apologies to those who were momentarily inconvenienced by this, but >> c'mon, this is free software and a 24 hour turnaround time is pretty >> good in any part of this industry! :-) > >24-hour turnaround is incredible in this industry; most companies won't >promise anything in 24 hours, and the few who do mostly promise just to >have somebody *look at it* within 24 hours. > >Three cheers for Jordan, the release team, the core team, and everyone >else associated with FreeBSD. I know each and every one of you are >concentrating on keeping Doug White's workload as low as possible. ;^) Look at the problem? Hell, you can't get most of this industry to answer the phone in under 24 hours. I have upgraded 3 of my machines to 2.2.7 using cvsup with out any problems. Jordan, the core team, the release team, and the rest of the players have done their usual fine job. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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