Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:10:01 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, Charles Bacon <crtb@cape.com> Subject: Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ? Message-ID: <20070919152953.J6398@small> In-Reply-To: <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070918170558.X79003@tomato.local> <20070919044912.R22958@small> <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > P.U.Kruppa wrote: >> 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. > > I disagree that 7.0 will be a non-production beta release. We're working > very hard to make sure it as good quality as it can be (but that also depends > directly on users helping out). I take this as an invitation, since I updated to 7.0 last week :) Greetings, Uli. > > Kris > Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany
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