End of Life is Meaningless

[spellberg_robert]

right now, all i want to know is:

   q:  will 6.4 be the_last_of_the_sixes ?

         or

   q:  now that it is nearly six months after_the_fact,
         is there, still, a non_zero probability that
         we will celebrate a "blessed event" named 6.5 ?

rob



Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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.
> 
> DES