Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 18:02:19 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: End of Life is Meaningless Message-ID: <867i0vpmgk.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200905051435.n45EZfTM073891@lurza.secnetix.de> (Oliver Fromme's message of "Tue, 5 May 2009 16:35:41 %2B0200 (CEST)") References: <200905051435.n45EZfTM073891@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> writes: > Basically, from a security point of view, running EOLed versions of > FreeBSD is not a very good idea. Given the fact that the EOL > deadlines are announced long in advance, and the fact that updating > FreeBSD is quite easy (either via source or via binary update), there > are very few valid excuses for staying with an EOLed version. That's the theory. The problem is that there may not be anything to upgrade to, because release dates tend to slip. For instance, the original EoL date for 6.2 was 2008-01-31, but 6.3 wasn't released until 2008-01-18. This was addressed at the last minute by extending 6.2's lifetime by four months. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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