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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:44:24 -0600
From:      dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Adam Turoff <aturoff@isinet.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart
Message-ID:  <19990302184424.C15210@stumpy.dannyland.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0700
References:  <4.1.19990302154522.03fb3730@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903021551210.19678-100000@peloton.physics.m ontana.edu> <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost>

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On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:

> Yes, 2.2.6 is less than a year old, so there SHOULD be a ports tree for it. 
> There's nothing more frustrating than running /stand/sysinstall to grab a port
> and discovering that the ports for your version are gone only a few months
> after you installed. And you know why so few people use those "upgrade
[...]

Ugh, that's when you go to the bloody config screen and change your RELEASE to
2.2.8.  Yes, I think this could be more intuitive, but it works well enough
right now. ;)

-danny

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