End-of-life for my amd64 ?

[Kris Kennaway]

NetOpsCenter wrote:
> 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).
>>
>> Kris
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> Aloha,
> 
> In support of FreeBSD 7.0 and the people who have developed it....
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD 7.0  since Jan  8 2007  CURRENT on this box 
> which is a desktop for browsing and email  with a Dual core AMD CPU setup.
> It rocks.
> 
> I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old 
> hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD team has really got 
> their act together on this one.
> 
> (From Experience with FreeBSD:  I have run FreeBSD since 3.*on desktops 
> with xfce3 gui.  I now run servers for www and  postfix as well. )
> 
> 
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> 
> 

Thanks for the feedback.  It's always good to hear "it works fine" 
anti-bug-reports :)

Kris