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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems
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In response to Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>:
> 
> Version 4.x is no longer supported by FreeBSD at all. I suggest  
> either reinstalling FreeBSD 5.4 or just install 6.1.

That's a bit of an exaggeration.
http://security.freebsd.org/#adv

FreeBSD 4.11 and 4-STABLE are officially supported until Jan 2007.

although 4.8 hasn't been supported in quite a while.

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Bill Moran
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