Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

[Clifton Royston]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:07:26PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> Clifton Royston wrote:
> >   In the next month or two I've got to upgrade a number of servers that
> > are currently on an EOL'd version of 4-STABLE.  I foresee that I'll
> > have very limited time to do full OS upgrades on these systems in the
> > coming several years, so I want to make sure I bring them onto an
> > extended-life branch.
> 
> My personal recommendation is to put them on FreeBSD 5.3 right now, and
> to move up to 5.4 when it is released.  Minor version upgrades are really
> easy in FreeBSD -- once I had downloaded the ISO image, it took me all of
> five minutes to upgrade from FreeBSD 5.3 to 5.4-BETA1.  (I have detailed
> instructions online on doing the 4.8->4.11 upgrade, and I'll put similar
> instructions online about the 5.3->5.4 upgrade once 5.4 is released.)

  Thanks very much for your prompt and well thought out response!

  I think I'll go with your recommendation.
 
  -- Clifton
 
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