From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 08:54:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A16516A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:54:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4823343D31 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from turbo23@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 22827 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jan 2004 16:53:47 -0000 Received: from 62.204.106.135 by www28.gmx.net with HTTP; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:53:48 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:53:48 +0100 (MET) From: "Thomas Vogt" To: ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #627573 Message-ID: <8981.1075222428@www28.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: linux_base end of life? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:54:57 -0000 Hi As far as I know, the linux_base packages and the port itself are based on RedHat 7.x. RedHat 7.x and 8.x reached end of life at the end of last year (2003-12-31). 9.x will reach it's end of life on the 30th of April 2004. There are no more security updates availble for redhat 7x/8x, and most probably neither for the current linux_base system. Are there any plans to switch to another linux distribution as base package? cheers Thomas Vogt -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Bis 31.1.: TopMail + Digicam für nur 29 EUR http://www.gmx.net/topmail