Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:25:30 +0100 (WEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Gon=E7alves?= <miguelg@fe.up.pt> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Old version support Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304081414220.13566-100000@gnomo.fe.up.pt>
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Hello fellow BSDers! I am going to install a FreeBSD 4.8 server to be used only as a SMB server for a small network of Windows clients. I intend to install it and leave it running without much administration intervention (except for security bugs because we all know that the other bugs are hard to find in FreeBSD). Given the current End-of-Life policy for FreeBSD releases I was wondering how can I know about security problems for unsupported FreeBSD releases. For example, if I install 4.8 know and if in 2 years a kernel security bug is found that affects only the 4.x branch I suppose that a SA wouldn't be released. This could be less far-fetched: I could be running 4.4 know and I wouldn't know about security bugs that I should be aware of. How is it possible to cope with this without installing a current version? Best regards, Miguel Gon=E7alves PS: I know this is not a good thing to do but can you please CC to me as I am not on the list due to limitations of my mail server. Thanks again!
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