Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:48:51 +0100 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <CAFYkXjm%2Bav5Ky5dVV9vuuSpW%2Bpw2AcpzhC1aWfHP=iKNmuWXVA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200218183010.5a52441f.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20200217231452.717FA1E820@freefall.freebsd.org> <CAFYkXjmZi1-MB6W0HsMx9gHek7Xg5heoSKKWkNTnw74dxRTwAw@mail.gmail.com> <85E7C97E-EF8B-4FC7-8EF1-758B7BCBAE90@kreme.com> <20200218183010.5a52441f.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hello Poly :-) On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 6:31 PM Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On desktop systems, especially those including web browsers > and so-called "productivity software" (i. e., office suites), > security is far more important, as new approaches to broken > software concepts and flaky hardware (yes, I'm looking at > you, Mister Intelprocessor!) and their exploitation are > being invented very quickly. So the OS has to provide the > optimal solutions for mitigation. A faster release cycle > surely helps a lot. Newer security flaws probably require > methods of dealing with them that cannot be easily ported > to older releases, so that's probably the reason why they > are not supported that long. Sure thing, this is why there are PATCH updates every time they are important for kernel and base security / stability / other fixes reasons.. also ports provide their own "on demand" updates that are separate from base :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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