From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 03:00:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D5716A41A for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:00:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E5113C45D for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:00:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8J2xxBM006369; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:59:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from localhost (ulrich@localhost) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l8J2xwNo006366; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:59:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:59:58 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: ulrich@small To: Charles Bacon In-Reply-To: <20070918170558.X79003@tomato.local> Message-ID: <20070919044912.R22958@small> References: <20070918170558.X79003@tomato.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:00:45 -0000 On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: > I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be > a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: > > WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. > It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer > release within the next 4 months. > > 1. Now I wonder if I'll have to rebuild my filesystems again when 7.0 > comes out. ...releases/amd64 contains only 6.1 and 6.2 among the > ISO images. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html . There will be at least a 6.3-RELEASE (work hasn't started yet) and 7.0 will be sort of a non-production beta release. So you will have enough time before you have to do a a major upgrade. Regards, Uli. > > 2. I've been a wannabe sysadmin for years and have enjoyed FreeBSD since > it was 386BSD. However, I am slow to catch up, and would appreciate > (and suggest) short links to various entities which are either recent > or important to an admin. A checklist, much less than a man page, and > more an introduction, e.g. "freebsd-update(8) does just that, and may > be useful once the current release has been in use for more than a few > months." > > Chuck Bacon -- crtb@cape.com > ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany