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On 15 November 2012, at 14:46, Matthias Petermann wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:35:52 -0800
> Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> wrote:
>=20
>> http://www.freebsd.org/security/
>>=20
>> Scroll down about halfway.  9.0 is a regular release, EOL is January =
31, 2013.
>>=20
>> Alternate releases are extended releases, so 9.1 will have a 2 year
>> support span.
>=20
> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to =
upgrade
> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility?=20

Yes.  I have done that from 9.0 to 9.1-RC1 and later RC2.  It takes =
longer than you would like, but works just fine.