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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:35:34PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Julian D. Seifert wrote:
> >I'm running an ircd (derived from unrealircd) on a FreeBSD 5.5- 
> >Release.
> 
> At the risk of sounding rude, the 5.x series of FreeBSD is  
> deprecated.

FYI, 5.5 is officially supported until May 31, 2008.

See http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv

Only security fixes would go into the 5.5 release branch, however.  If
you have to run 5.x I'd recommend 5-STABLE as regular bug fixes can be
committed there.

Craig