From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 30 00:00:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08407AEB for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE92BFD for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=2EVhStzPEt3C34rz8NhNBK1Qe55+0JXC/kWuVXkxsXo=; b=toaYC9/fI14VU7ADrgaHBHJb/oOEbqjzK8undQEYPuV0fILYtHWAAosw6YumVqjr+Fco4gJG/O1+SaKacAf+Ka36401RiozjAcHDj/TJO4+xQ4mjlafXOUjCVt9ONijQlyX3W7A4oMlhHembrVvbPl7RGtTGpJAQ2Jg541a6oW4=; Received: from [122.129.203.50] (port=27248 helo=X220.ovitrap.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ULjDz-003Emg-1K; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:00:47 -0600 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:00:43 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: David Thurber Subject: Re: EOL Message-ID: <20130330070043.0f9fa66f@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <5155B0E6.9030303@thurber.org> References: <5155B0E6.9030303@thurber.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:55 -0000 Hi, On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:19:02 -0600 David Thurber wrote: > I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. > So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace > XP/3. > if you do not count the service packs and updates, your XP installation is EOL since 2001. If you count service packs and patches, FreeBSD has no defined EOL. All you have to do, is to introduce an update and patch strategy and do it at predefined times. > What I got from your website appears to be a year or two at most on > freebsd 8.3, and we really don't want to repeat the travails of the > transition from 98SE to XP/3 after this one because the research team > will be mostly mid 80's early 90"s by then. It's a lot of data > fetched over the web so we need security updates to keep the OS > secure with minimal interaction. If you would like to stick with x86, I would say that FreeBSD has the smoothest update and upgrade path. If you want something better, you would have to move to AIX or Solaris. Erich