End-of-life for my amd64 ?

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I disagree that 7.0 will be a non-production beta release.  We're working 
> very hard to make sure it as good quality as it can be (but that also depends 
> directly on users helping out).
I take this as an invitation, since I updated to 7.0 last week :)

Greetings,

Uli.

>
> Kris
>



Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany