Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:13:42 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net>, questions@freebsd.org, Charles Bacon <crtb@cape.com> Subject: Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ? Message-ID: <499c70c0709191013g78c16131r14f3d32cae85c001@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070918170558.X79003@tomato.local> <20070919044912.R22958@small> <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9/19/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> 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). > > Kris I'm running AMD64 7.0 in my C2D server since July with no stability issues at all with awesome ULE ;) Thank you guys for the hard work! -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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