Re: Development for older FreeBSD releases

[Nate Williams]

> > Building a new development box from a set of 2.2.8 CDs would
> > certainly be a simple and guaranteed method if that's an option
> > for you.
> 
> Unfortunately it's not guaranteed...a lot of new hardware has been
> released since December 1998 (the date of 2.2.8-RELEASE).  :-p

Why is that important?  I've got brand-new boxes running 2.2.8-R w/out
any problems.  Occasionally I needed to back-port an ethernet driver or
fix, but otherwise things work fine.




Nate

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