From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 11 23:02:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA72C1065697 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:02:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from services.rulez.sk (services.rulez.sk [92.240.234.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3568FC0A for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (services.rulez.sk [92.240.234.125]) by services.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A1113345E2; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:02:31 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rulez.sk Received: from services.rulez.sk ([92.240.234.125]) by localhost (services.rulez.sk [92.240.234.125]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FCssTYtRLyiR; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:02:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.50.0.2] (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: danger@rulez.sk) by services.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9DCEB13345DC; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:02:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AD26400.2060502@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:02:24 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nerius Landys References: <4ACFDD57.6000401@izb.knu.ac.kr> <560f92640910091944k66f8c595rcbdb296e0dbfc078@mail.gmail.com> <20091010194000.GA17212@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <560f92640910101323v36aa49aat5b88f6542bd8e169@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92640910101323v36aa49aat5b88f6542bd8e169@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerry McAllister , ?????? , FreeBSD Questions , Marwan Sultan Subject: Re: best FBSD version for commercial use. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:02:33 -0000 Nerius Landys wrote: >>> My 2 cents, as far as I know 7.1 will be maintained longer than 7.2 >>> according to the freebsd.org website. That is, security fixes will be >>> rolled out for 7.1 a while after 7.2 reaches End Of Life. That made >>> me decide to go with 7.1 when I had to make the switch from 7.0 a few >>> months ago. 8.0 was not out at that time. >> >> I don't think that is correct. There must be something unclear there. > > http://security.freebsd.org/ > > Near the bottom of the page mentioned above, there is a table. > RELENG_7_1 EoL is January 31, 2011, RELENG_7_2 EoL is May 31, 2010 > according to the chart. That is a difference of 8 months. All of these seems to be correct, but it needs a little note. The last version from the X-STABLE branch gets the Extended lifetime support. 7.2 is definitely not the latest release from the stable/7 branch, and that is the reason why it has shorter support life time. There, however, will be at least 7.3 which will potentially get longer support. And upgrading to 7.3 from 7.2 will surely not be a big deal. If you read the mentioned web page more carefully, you will see the following paragraph: Extended Selected releases (normally every second release plus the last release from each -STABLE branch) will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 24 months after the release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that there is a newer Extended release for at least 3 months before the older Extended release expires. -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer