[2044] in NetBSD-Development
Re: desupporting old releases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri May 11 15:14:04 2001
Message-Id: <200105111913.PAA02126@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 May 2001 11:28:52 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:13:51 -0400
> So, I haven't heard anyone oppose this idea.
<pedantic>I think it's fairly clear that I oppose the idea, just not
that strongly.</pedantic>
> If I am still not hearing
> anything by tomorrow then I will write a desupport notice and send it
> out to netbsd-announce. Anyone who is interested in being involved in
> writing the mail should speak up.
the announcement should note that for people who want to continue to
run Athena on their PC, the recommended course of action is to make a
backup and install IS Linux-Athena using the SIPB installer <URL to
one-sheet instructions here>.
Other than that I don't feel compelled to help write the announcement.
Jonathon
