Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> wrote: > Oliver Fromme <o...@lurza.secnetix.de> writes: > > Basically, from a security point of view, running EOLed versions of > > FreeBSD is not a very good idea. Given the fact that the EOL > > deadlines are announced long in advance, and the fact that updating > > FreeBSD is quite easy (either via source or via binary update), there > > are very few valid excuses for staying with an EOLed version. > > That's the theory. The problem is that there may not be anything to > upgrade to, because release dates tend to slip. For instance, the > original EoL date for 6.2 was 2008-01-31, but 6.3 wasn't released until > 2008-01-18. This was addressed at the last minute by extending 6.2's > lifetime by four months.
Yes, that's true. In that case there wasn't much of a choice. Fortunately that doesn't happen often. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing." -- Dick Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"