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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100
From: Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net>
To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Subject: Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
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Hi,

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:35:52 -0800
Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> wrote:

> http://www.freebsd.org/security/
> 
> Scroll down about halfway.  9.0 is a regular release, EOL is January 31, 2013.
> 
> Alternate releases are extended releases, so 9.1 will have a 2 year
> support span.

Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade
from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? 

Kind regards,
Matthias

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Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net>