From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 01:11:15 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 A18C516A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perimeter.co.za (obelix.perimeter.co.za [209.212.102.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0335143F93 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:11:13 -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 10:11:09 +0200 References: <20031023075526.GA81534@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031023075526.GA81534@rot13.obsecurity.org> From: bsd@perimeter.co.za To: Kris Kennaway Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:11:09 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Which Releases arestill"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 08:11:15 -0000 Kris Kennaway writes: > Most forms of support provided by the FreeBSD Project are on an ad-hoc > basis, since it's a community-supported project. > > Typically, old releases do not get bug fixes beyond security fixes > (for a limited lifetime, see http://www.freebsd.org/security), so bug > reports against old releases are usually dealt with by asking the > originator to upgrade to the latest release to verify whether the > problem still exists, at which point an interested developer might be > able to address the problem. > > A similar situation exists with the ports collection. It is not > guaranteed to work with old releases, and updated packages are only > provided for the head of the -STABLE branch. > > Kris > Thanks Kris. It's a pity that Cyclades are so focussed on Linux that they are ignoring BSD... The fact that I have more than 10 of their devices (and I'm sure there must be many more in the field on BSD platforms) does not seem to concern them. One day when I'm big I'll learn some C and try including the if_cpc driver into the source tree. Regards, Patrick.