From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 17:40:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E1F516A41A for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:40:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C235E13C45B for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:40:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so225858nfb for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:40:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=1oV1YQmO1IKCeVEK5hpish7bmOhS8F+RaD78pG8892Y=; b=C2uJTuMtHXXEDzEhvlJVY9fi5QsbMCyhTNlQuPYALzuZ/14WSNss6l5919qR72OnAxIRr3HFDDlUtutrTK2q63J2qiXSqZz8EqWxxSaG1ae5MOcWcOWAJ28tDlgFrxgPNC1WINoJKSWNRL6jjRBvLSr2240gFcFfs3KVcCPj6II= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=n2RVMs30NL6Aet1Rk6ACfQfax+GfLqIcRQWyzSjMhi8A0FDutTeBDkqQHdzri2TLM8zWqwV0ugPWMMrQNNtU++AXzN9AfyZq8NKOK1xxNuZ9wZHscCoAnHP2i+ShACdOLBLRVIuxrm2RATSP7ZVwlpTHR6kk/ckUiJbw1ylA47I= Received: by 10.86.51.2 with SMTP id y2mr680780fgy.1190222022554; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.2.1 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0709191013g78c16131r14f3d32cae85c001@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:13:42 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070918170558.X79003@tomato.local> <20070919044912.R22958@small> <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" , questions@freebsd.org, Charles Bacon Subject: Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:40:36 -0000 On 9/19/07, Kris Kennaway wrote: > P.U.Kruppa wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: > > > >> I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be > >> a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: > >> > >> WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. > >> It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer > >> release within the next 4 months. > >> > >> 1. Now I wonder if I'll have to rebuild my filesystems again when 7.0 > >> comes out. ...releases/amd64 contains only 6.1 and 6.2 among the > >> ISO images. > > Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html . > > There will be at least a 6.3-RELEASE (work hasn't started yet) and 7.0 > > will be sort of a non-production beta release. So you will have enough > > time before you have to do a a major upgrade. > > I disagree that 7.0 will be a non-production beta release. We're > working very hard to make sure it as good quality as it can be (but that > also depends directly on users helping out). > > Kris I'm running AMD64 7.0 in my C2D server since July with no stability issues at all with awesome ULE ;) Thank you guys for the hard work! -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/