Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:02:06 -0000 From: Derrick Francis <derrick.francis@x-feds.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Support for FreeBSD 4.10/4.9 Message-ID: <43A749F8.9010108@x-feds.com> In-Reply-To: <20060119231825.GA98806@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <43A733F9.60306@x-feds.com> <20060119231825.GA98806@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris,
Thank you for the quick response. That is exactly what I was
looking for.
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:28:09PM -0800, Derrick Francis wrote:
>
>> Have a simple question. If someone to request support for version 4.10
>> or 4.9 how would they be supported? Please let me know. I need to
>> verify this version of FreeBSD is still supported. Thank you.
>>
>
> Generally speaking these old versions are not supported at all. They
> might still be receiving security support (see
> http://www.freebsd.org/security/), but if you e.g. try to report a bug
> then you'll mostly get people telling you to upgrade to a supported
> version first (since after all there's a good chance the bug is
> already fixed).
>
> At this point you really need to plan to upgrade to the 6.0 series,
> since that's where the future lies.
>
> Kris
>
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