From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 27 06:24:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15ED810657A0; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:24:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B66E8FC1D; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAR5vYCi046064; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:57:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:57:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:57:58 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20091127055757.GA75657@thought.org> References: <1259283983.92302.23.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:06:16 +0000 Cc: Ken Smith , freebsd-stable , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:24:01 -0000 Some questions that I hope are not too far OT:: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:06:01PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Ken Smith > > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:06:23 -0500 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > > > > > Just a quick note in case there are people here who aren't subscribed to > > the freebsd-announce@ mailing list. > > > > We have completed the 8.0-RELEASE cycle. Details about the release are > > available from the main web site, in particular the announcement itself > > is available here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html > > > > Thanks for all the help with testing during the release process, as well > > as your continued support of FreeBSD. > > And congratulations and thanks to the entire FreeBSD release engineering > team and the contributors. It's a .0 release, but my experience with it > through the release cycle has been excellent. I especially appreciate the > new USB stack which has fixed all sorts of annoying issues (and a couple > that were a lot more than annoying) in the old stack. > /* I echo Kevin's congrats, of course; it ain't getting any *easier*, certainly. */ Altho I am still some time from having my migration from the 1998 Kayak -> 2009 Dell done and working, will it be possible to upgrade my 32bit 7.2-R, p4 to a 64bit 8.0? Even tho i am documenting __everything__, it isn't something I would care to do more than necessary. In going from 32bits to 64, does the filesystem change? My hunch is that it does, but thought I would get that clear as a first step. My Intell duo-core is very fast; would moving to the 64-bit system be a net gain or loss [in performance]. Eventuaaly, I *will* have 64-bit micros, killers or otherwise, :-) ... thanks in advance. > Great job! > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php