From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 17:10:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B242106567D for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 17:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from mx03.dls.net (mx03.dls.net [216.145.245.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4BE8FC22 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 17:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from [216.145.235.114] (helo=emailrob.com) by mx03.dls.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M1OAK-0003qS-Kg; Tue, 05 May 2009 12:10:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4A00651F.40208@emailrob.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 17:11:11 +0100 From: spellberg_robert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fbsd_chat References: <200905051435.n45EZfTM073891@lurza.secnetix.de> <867i0vpmgk.fsf@ds4.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: End of Life is Meaningless X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 17:10:53 -0000 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 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