From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 3 4:15: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9162A37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 04:15:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8802343E4A for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 04:15:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id DF23B5371; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:14:57 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: David Yeske Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver ("fla"). References: <20030202222042.3444.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:14:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030202222042.3444.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> (David Yeske's message of "Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:20:42 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Yeske writes: > I still use this. Users will not suddenly quit using hardware that > works, they will start using a different OS that works with it, or > they will be stuck trying to continue to support an old version of > FreeBSD because it works with it. Read the announcement again. FreeBSD 5.x will still have DoC support, which means you have at least two years to grow tired of it before we stop putting out 5.x releases. By that time you will hopefully have realised it is a dead-end technology and switched to something that works. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message