From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 17:06:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFDE16A47C for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:06:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nullpt@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0625643E4E for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:59:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nullpt@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so136097uge for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:59:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PrQK5qgShPm6Rn8Q07dIBEDs4Vdge4DK8iYkb26GZM+D2oAXjAIguBx8ZSxo+s1V8CeRNmDSW2mnwJS5fm7FrRcwXT2q3XHqg1iDhC/PaACoHnbn1o8Ntq3dOfKMl6HPbmqpSPqtT+fIq+LSFZ/ZnWv32rEATf2bIru8sDznVww= Received: by 10.67.101.8 with SMTP id d8mr1335734ugm; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.237.14 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:59:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <755cb9fc0610110959g713a7e02rda3037ca88341707@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:59:28 +0100 From: "Alexandre Vieira" To: "sthaug@nethelp.no" In-Reply-To: <20061011.182018.41709122.sthaug@nethelp.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20061011102106.GY1594@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20061011151458.L97038@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20061011083021.C2780@treehorn.dfmm.org> <20061011.182018.41709122.sthaug@nethelp.no> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:33:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-security@dfmm.org, security-officer@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:06:31 -0000 On 10/11/06, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > I realize that resources to keep chasing this stuff are in limited > supply, > > but if you solicit the opinion of the community, I'd bet that more > people > > would rather see 4.x support continue than 5.x support. > > > > I know that it would be a violation of the stated policy, but I think > that > > supporting 4.x and 6.x over the next year would benefit way more people > > than the current plan of supporting 5.x and 6.x and eol'ing 4.x. > > Yes, fully agreed. I'd much rather have longer support for 4.x than 5.x. > > We still have lots of machines running 4.11 here. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I fully agree with the delay in the 4x EOL. I know many people (including myself) who still run 4.x in dead end hardware for home firewalls/gateways and several other services that run in low, low end hardware. 4.x still has reasons to live for quite a while :) Best regards -- Alexandre Vieira - nullpt@gmail.com