End of Life is Meaningless
Mike Hernandez
sequethin at gmail.com
Tue May 5 01:49:03 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:58 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> That should be read as "End of Life" is meaningless. Not end of "Life
> is Meaningless." Life is still meaningless, as is this post if you
> disagree.
>
> It mystifies me that there is this recent tendency for people to get
> concerned about EOL. "What do I do?" My answer, "Do nothing." Just
> because a FreeBSD version is EOL doesn't mean you have to stop using
> it. It doesn't mean that your particular version is suddenly prone to
> downtime. It doesn't mean you can't install patches even though the
> secteam won't be updating CVS. It doesn't mean you can't continue to
> develop applications for a major version.
>
> EOL is a tool for FreeBSD to manage its own house. It is in no way a
> directive on how you should manage your house. Queue someone still
> running 2.1.5 with uptime stats. Come on. You know you want to show off.
>
> To the people who have to manage limited resources and must therefore
> implement an EOL policy. I commend you on the balancing act. Good on ya
> mates. Your doing a fine job.
>
I understand that some systems can't afford downtime for an upgrade, but
why not upgrade? A few minutes of uptime to take advantage of the hard
work that the developers poured into making another release can't be a
bad thing can it? I agree that there's certainly no need to panic, but
in situations where a little downtime is acceptable I wouldn't opt to
stay with the old system. Just my .02 :)
--Mike H
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