From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 00:36:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D0E16A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perimeter.co.za (obelix.perimeter.co.za [209.212.102.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C8B43FB1 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 9999) by perimeter.co.za with local; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:36:19 +0200 From: bsd@perimeter.co.za To: "FreeBSD Question List" Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:36:19 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Subject: Which Releases are still"supported" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:36:31 -0000 Hi all. I know things are very different in the Open Source world, so the concept of "officially supported" versions is probably nonsense, but here's my dilemma: I received an email from Cyclades in which they told me: "I am sorry to tell you, but the latest FreeBSD version supported by our driver is version 4.4. The driver is not tested with newer FreeBSD versions and therefor we cannot support it." Now, since 4.4 was dated September 2001, it is now more than two years old. I keep my servers up to date (currently at 4.8-p13). So - my question - is 4.4 still a "supported" branch, or has it now been consigned to history? I couldn't find any policy statement WRT older releases at freebsd.org, though I might have looked in the wrong places... Regards, Patrick O'Reilly.