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Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>,
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Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3
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Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> writes:
> 2 years would be perfectly fine in my mind.  I'd love to see 2 years
> of support for 6.2-RELEASE.

Well, you're getting two years for 6.3.

> 6.2 was (and *is* AFAIK) the most stable release of FreeBSD since 4.11
> and it came out the door with less than 12 months of support intended.

6.2 was released on 2007-01-15.  The original EoL date was 2008-01-31,
and was later pushed back to 2008-05-31.  How is that "less than 12
months of support intended"?

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