[fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> Your 4.x system is not doing to die when we EOL 4.x.  We're only
> saying that it is not going to see any additional work on it in
> the official FreeBSD repository.

Actually, we're not even saying that.  We're just saying that it will no 
longer be officially supported.  I anticipate that we will continue to see a 
gradual smattering of 4.x commits fixing critical bugs and so on, we just 
won't be covering it in security advisories, etc.  That said, I'v eworked hard 
over the last two or three months to phase out 4.x for my production servers, 
and was quite pleased with how easily the 6.x transition went on the last few 
remaining ones.  One of the big motivating features for me to move forward was 
actually audit support, but then, I suppose it would be :-).

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge