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

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 11, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Paul Allen wrote:
>>
>>> I think the most likely path of success is, as you say, to make the
>>> 4.x
>>> userland more like 6.x.
>>
>> For anyone who really wishes to stick to freebsd 4.x for performance, we 
>> should refer them to dragonflybsd, which seems to be taking this approach. 
>> it was forked from freebsd 4.8 and seems to pretty modern in userland.
>
> Well, this is pretty unsubstantiated...it doesn't automatically follow that 
> because they forked from FreeBSD 4 they will retain all the characteristics 
> of FreeBSD 4.

FreeBSD 6.x is also a forked 4.x, FWIW :-).

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge