End of Life is Meaningless
Xin LI
delphij at delphij.net
Tue May 5 18:46:52 UTC 2009
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spellberg_robert wrote:
> right now, all i want to know is:
>
> q: will 6.4 be the_last_of_the_sixes ?
At this point, I'd say that it's very likely that 6.4 is the last of the
6.x release. The current EoL date has been set on November 30, 2010.
> 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
>
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