End-of-life for my amd64 ?
Howard Goldstein
hg at queue.to
Wed Sep 19 10:13:42 PDT 2007
P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> 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.
If the PTB are listening please reconsider the time schedule on 6.3 to
set a date and emplace it. The xorg version change is wreaking havoc on
some of our new guys.
I know this has been discussed before but there is evidence of losing
people now as the source upgrade is a bridge too far for some. If I can
contribute to making it happen someone please shoot me an email.
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