FreeBSD Eol's?

[Roman Neuhauser]

# colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk / 2004-04-24 14:39:57 +0100:
> At 14:22 24/04/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >4.8 passed its expiry date and was extended.  4.9 will probably be
> >extended at a later date too.
> 
>   Looks like Kris got a bit confused here. :-)
> 
>   The idea behind the extended support branches is that *selected*
> releases will be supported for at least 24 months; this allows us to
> offer extended support to people who can't upgrade on a regular basis,
> while keeping the number of supported branches to a manageable level.
>   We haven't yet decided which future branches will qualify for
> extended support, but it is quite unlikely that this set would include
> FreeBSD 4.9.

    How are the extended-support branches chosen?

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