From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 15:12:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2312B16A41C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:12:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C9843D45 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:12:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.144]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IJO00AZLCV4X5C0@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:11:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IJO00MNOCV4KF00@pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:11:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IJO00903CV3L9@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:11:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:11:27 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050715115650.I66818@ganymede.hub.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-id: <42D7D21F.1010306@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> <20050715115650.I66818@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050714) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:12:12 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > And, for "the stupid question of the day" ... how long before 5.x is no > longer supported? The FreeBSD Security Team will support FreeBSD 5.x until at least the end of September 2007. Support from other teams and the ports tree may end sooner, but since there aren't very large differences between 5.x and 6.x I doubt there will be many problems. > I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was > *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just skipping 5.x > altogether? Or are there such drastic changes in 6.x that doing so at > this time wouldn't be prudent? If I was deploying a new server today, I'd install FreeBSD 5.4. If I were planning on installing a new server next month, I'd install FreeBSD 6.0-BETA-whatever-number-we're-up-to-by-then. Colin Percival