End-of-life for my amd64 ?
P.U.Kruppa
ulrich at pukruppa.net
Tue Sep 18 20:00:45 PDT 2007
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be
> a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw:
>
> WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
> It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
> release within the next 4 months.
>
> 1. Now I wonder if I'll have to rebuild my filesystems again when 7.0
> comes out. ...releases/amd64 contains only 6.1 and 6.2 among the
> ISO images.
Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html .
There will be at least a 6.3-RELEASE (work hasn't started yet)
and 7.0 will be sort of a non-production beta release. So you
will have enough time before you have to do a a major upgrade.
Regards,
Uli.
>
> 2. I've been a wannabe sysadmin for years and have enjoyed FreeBSD since
> it was 386BSD. However, I am slow to catch up, and would appreciate
> (and suggest) short links to various entities which are either recent
> or important to an admin. A checklist, much less than a man page, and
> more an introduction, e.g. "freebsd-update(8) does just that, and may
> be useful once the current release has been in use for more than a few
> months."
>
> Chuck Bacon -- crtb at cape.com
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany
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