End of Life is Meaningless

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> writes:
> Basically, from a security point of view, running EOLed versions of
> FreeBSD is not a very good idea.  Given the fact that the EOL
> deadlines are announced long in advance, and the fact that updating
> FreeBSD is quite easy (either via source or via binary update), there
> are very few valid excuses for staying with an EOLed version.

That's the theory.  The problem is that there may not be anything to
upgrade to, because release dates tend to slip.  For instance, the
original EoL date for 6.2 was 2008-01-31, but 6.3 wasn't released until
2008-01-18.  This was addressed at the last minute by extending 6.2's
lifetime by four months.

DES
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