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On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:51 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Why are you releasing a new product on an already unsupported version?
> 6.2 is the version you really need to be moving to not 6.1.

FreeBSD 6.1 is not unsupported - far from it.  When 6.1 was released, it
was designated as an "Extended support" branch, and is currently
scheduled to be supported (from a security point of view) after support
for 6.2 is dropped.  http://www.freebsd.org/security/

If you're building network applications, it makes perfect sense to go
for 6.1, as that's part of the reason behind the "extended support"
branches.

Gavin