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Date:      Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:33:09 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3
Message-ID:  <86zlpwk8x6.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <D4FFD9ED-8694-4950-8317-D9359ECCFEE3@netconsonance.com> (Jo Rhett's message of "Sat\, 7 Jun 2008 13\:51\:28 -0700")
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Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> writes:
> 2 years would be perfectly fine in my mind.  I'd love to see 2 years
> of support for 6.2-RELEASE.

Well, you're getting two years for 6.3.

> 6.2 was (and *is* AFAIK) the most stable release of FreeBSD since 4.11
> and it came out the door with less than 12 months of support intended.

6.2 was released on 2007-01-15.  The original EoL date was 2008-01-31,
and was later pushed back to 2008-05-31.  How is that "less than 12
months of support intended"?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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