End-of-life for my amd64 ?

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be
> a 6.3.  Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw:
>
>    WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
>    It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
>    release within the next 4 months.
>
> 1. Now I wonder if I'll have to rebuild my filesystems again when 7.0
>   comes out.  ...releases/amd64 contains only 6.1 and 6.2 among the
>   ISO images.
Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html .
There will be at least a 6.3-RELEASE (work hasn't started yet) 
and 7.0 will be sort of a non-production beta release. So you 
will have enough time before you have to do a a major upgrade.

Regards,

Uli.


>
> 2. I've been a wannabe sysadmin for years and have enjoyed FreeBSD since
>   it was 386BSD.  However, I am slow to catch up, and would appreciate
>   (and suggest) short links to various entities which are either recent
>   or important to an admin.  A checklist, much less than a man page, and
>   more an introduction, e.g. "freebsd-update(8) does just that, and may
>   be useful once the current release has been in use for more than a few
>   months."
>
> 	Chuck Bacon -- crtb at cape.com
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany