Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:21:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: End of Life is Meaningless Message-ID: <200905051621.n45GL0Ee079035@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <867i0vpmgk.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> writes: > > Basically, from a security point of view, running EOLed versions of > > FreeBSD is not a very good idea. Given the fact that the EOL > > deadlines are announced long in advance, and the fact that updating > > FreeBSD is quite easy (either via source or via binary update), there > > are very few valid excuses for staying with an EOLed version. > > That's the theory. The problem is that there may not be anything to > upgrade to, because release dates tend to slip. For instance, the > original EoL date for 6.2 was 2008-01-31, but 6.3 wasn't released until > 2008-01-18. This was addressed at the last minute by extending 6.2's > lifetime by four months. Yes, that's true. In that case there wasn't much of a choice. Fortunately that doesn't happen often. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing." -- Dick Brandon
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