Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 17:11:11 +0100 From: spellberg_robert <emailrob@emailrob.com> To: fbsd_chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: End of Life is Meaningless Message-ID: <4A00651F.40208@emailrob.com> References: <200905051435.n45EZfTM073891@lurza.secnetix.de> <867i0vpmgk.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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right now, all i want to know is:
q: will 6.4 be the_last_of_the_sixes ?
or
q: now that it is nearly six months after_the_fact,
is there, still, a non_zero probability that
we will celebrate a "blessed event" named 6.5 ?
rob
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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
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