End of Life is Meaningless

[Oliver Fromme]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
 > 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.

Yes, that's true.  In that case there wasn't much of a choice.
Fortunately that doesn't happen often.

Best regards
   Oliver

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