Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:42:54 -0700 From: security <security@jim-liesl.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL Message-ID: <45355C6E.5030703@jim-liesl.org> In-Reply-To: <453531C9.7080304@freebsd.org> References: <453531C9.7080304@freebsd.org>
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FreeBSD Security Officer wrote:
> In short:
> * FreeBSD is a volunteer project, and we don't want to volunteer to support
> FreeBSD 4.x beyond the scheduled EoL date of January 31st, 2007;
> * Even if we did want to support FreeBSD 4.x beyond that date, I'm not certain
> that we would be able to do so, given that both FreeBSD and the rest of the
> world has moved on; and
> * You've had lots of warning that this was going to happen, so it's a bit late
> to start complaining now.
>
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Security Officer
>
To no one in particular:
"The hood's not welded on" (Eric Raymond?).
You'll have the sources. If you're using 4.11 in a business, you
need to decide if it's more cost effective to move on to 6 or hire
someone to keep 4.11 running. There's compat_4 to keep most userland
apps happy. I'm sure you could argue the various design issues to your
hearts content on the news groups, but practically speaking, I don't
have an issue with this. Nor is it all that different from your typical
paid for support model for a proprietary OS.
It's not like the poor folks that got stuck with a business app that was
locked to win95 or 98 with bizarre undocumented API's
jim
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