From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 15:45:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B96CBC1 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:45:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davida@thurber.org) Received: from host.thurber.org (host.thurber.org [67.227.222.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0D2C1E for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ras-178-093.atcnet.net ([216.180.178.93]:51407 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by host.thurber.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ULb55-00069l-6W for questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:19:03 -0400 Message-ID: <5155B0E6.9030303@thurber.org> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:19:02 -0600 From: David Thurber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: EOL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130329-0, 03/29/2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.thurber.org X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - thurber.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:45:58 -0000 I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. What I got from your website appears to be a year or two at most on freebsd 8.3, and we really don't want to repeat the travails of the transition from 98SE to XP/3 after this one because the research team will be mostly mid 80's early 90"s by then. It's a lot of data fetched over the web so we need security updates to keep the OS secure with minimal interaction.