[HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

Michelle Sullivan michelle at sorbs.net
Wed Sep 3 15:17:51 UTC 2014


Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
> <michelle at sorbs.net> wrote:
> | Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's *End Of
> |> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
> |> 
> |>   
> | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore...
>
> Not at all, but you don't update them any more.
>
>   
Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any
EOL release...

Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so
you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing
updates, then later stopped providing security updates.

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/



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