Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!xylogics!loverso From: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Lets see what versions of news people are running Message-ID: <7397@xenna.Xylogics.COM> Date: 12 Oct 89 19:31:17 GMT References: <69987@uunet.UU.NET> Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Organization: Xylogics, Inc., Burlington MA Lines: 46 In article <69987@uunet.UU.NET> version@uunet.UU.NET writes: > I'm compiling a list of what versions of news are in use by > what people. A summary will appear in news.admin in a month or so I did the same a few months ago (before B news patch 18). The results weren't surprising: most sites are running old code. Two surprising (annoying?) things is that neither B2.11 nor C news put the current "patch" version in the return message. I.e., for B news, a system tracked by patch numbers, you only get the patch date. For C news, a system tracked by patch dates, you get no other information than the single character "C". While its a valiant effort for Geoff & Henry to want only "one C news", there are (now) different `versions' in use in the field, and it would be nice to know who's got an out of date version! John [comments I added (B news patch levels) are in brackets] Count Version 2 B 2.10.1 6/24/83 2 B 2.10.3 4.3bds beta 6/6/85 3 B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85 1 B 2.10.3 BETA 3/19/86 3 B 2.11 beta 9/22/86 13 B 2.11 10/30/86 [patchlevel 0] 2 B 2.11 11/15/86 [patchlevel 1] 1 B 2.11 3/10/87 [patchlevel 5] 1 B 2.11.8-Pyramid OSx 4.1 87/07/14 11 B 2.11 4/10/87 [patchlevel 8] 4 B 2.11 10/15/87 [patchlevel 11] 5 B 2.11 11/04/87 [patchlevel 12] 3 B 2.11.13 11/19/87 3 B 2.11 11/19/87 [patchlevel 13] 61 B 2.11 12/1/87 [patchlevel 14] 34 B 2.11 1/24/89 [patchlevel 17] 1 B3.0 (beta level 5) 1 B3.0 (beta level 7.7) 14 C 1 P 1.2, Release 06/13/89, Patch 98 [IBM VM] ---- 166 total for "ne" distribution -- John Robert LoVerso Xylogics, Inc. 617/272-8140 loverso@Xylogics.COM Annex Terminal Server Development Group