From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 15:43:40 2010 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 56A401065673 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:43:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglist@ucwv.edu) Received: from mail.ucwv.edu (mail.ucwv.edu [216.30.201.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CF48FC1E for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ucwv.edu ([172.16.0.15]) by mail.ucwv.edu ([172.16.0.15]) with mapi; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:43:19 -0500 From: mailinglist To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:39:17 -0500 Thread-Topic: FreeBSD Support Cycle Thread-Index: AQHKvtYTyNxPbGh20k2x+Sicxdn98A== Message-ID: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75F@mail.ucwv.edu> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: FreeBSD Support Cycle 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: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:43:40 -0000 I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storag= e for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 va= riety. What is the expected EOS & EOL dates (end of support/end of life) f= or FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL question matters for an open source = OS, but basically I'm just asking at what point in time would there no long= er be security updates and bug fixes made to the OS?=