Continuation of support for FreeBSD 4.x ?

[Erik Trulsson]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:24:20AM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Could somebody please clarify for me what will happen to FreeBSD 4.x
> support with regards to patches and or security updates in the future
> ? I've heard that when version 6 becomes RELEASE there will be no more
> security updates to version 4.x, is this true ?

No, that is not true.
As you can see at http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html security
updates will be issued for 4.x until Jan 31 2007.
Other types of patches and bugfixes may also be applied, but that depends on
there being some committer who is willing (and able) to do the work.


> 
> I work at a University where we have approximately 30 x FreeBSD
> servers of which half run 4.x and are used for routing IPX and
> connecting to Netware shares, running various Netware related
> applications etc so the above is of importance to me. FreeBSD 5.x was
> slow to adopt IPX support and it has never been stable enough to use
> in a production enviroment.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Regards,
> Nelis
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