Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:34:09 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: ptitoliv <ptitoliv@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Main differences between RELEASE_X and RELEASE_X_Y branches Message-ID: <200412061534.09888.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <41B4CC9F.2020202@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> References: <41B23F3E.4060400@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> <200412051313.44805.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <41B4CC9F.2020202@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net>
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On Monday 06 December 2004 01:18 pm, ptitoliv <ptitoliv@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> wrote: > >No, except that RELEASEs eventually are dropped from being officially > >supported. 3.x is no longer supported. Chances are 3.x is not very secure, > >due to new threats which haven't been patched to it since it was dropped, > > but 4.x is good for a while even though 5.3 is the new RELEASE. > > Hi again everybody, > > First, I want to thank you all the mailing list memebrs who have > answered to my questions. The BSD Tree is more explicit for me now :) > But I have a little last question :-). I am now in FreeBSD 4.9 > RELEASE-p11 and I would want to now if it is necessary to upgrade it to > 4.10 because 4.9 is no longer supported anf if it is safe ? In general it's a good idea to upgrade when your RELEASE version is dropped from support, but it depends on how you're using the machine, what specific vulnerabilities are addressed in newer RELEASEs, and whether or not you actually need what's provided by upgrading. Some people are still happily (and sometimes relatively securely) running 4.9, while many others have upgraded. As far as the specific differences between 4.9 and 4.10, I'm honestly not sure (have only used 5.x myself), but you could check out the archives of the -questions list to see what people were encountering while doing such an upgrade: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists Also, when you cvsup the source for 4.10, check out /usr/src/UPDATING - jt
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