Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 10:36:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Gon=E7alves?= <miguelg@fe.up.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old version support Message-ID: <3E92DE70.70609@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304081414220.13566-100000@gnomo.fe.up.pt> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304081414220.13566-100000@gnomo.fe.up.pt>
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Miguel Gonçalves wrote: > Hello fellow BSDers! > > I am going to install a FreeBSD 4.8 server to be used only as > a SMB server for a small network of Windows clients. I intend > to install it and leave it running without much administration > intervention (except for security bugs because we all know that > the other bugs are hard to find in FreeBSD). > > Given the current End-of-Life policy for FreeBSD releases I was > wondering how can I know about security problems for unsupported > FreeBSD releases. For example, if I install 4.8 know and if in > 2 years a kernel security bug is found that affects only the 4.x > branch I suppose that a SA wouldn't be released. This could be > less far-fetched: I could be running 4.4 know and I wouldn't > know about security bugs that I should be aware of. > > How is it possible to cope with this without installing a current > version? Sooner or later you're going to have to upgrade ... eventually things aren't supported anymore. If you subscribe to security-advisories@freebsd.org you'll get notifications of problems as they are found. The emails list the versions that have been patched, so you'll know when support stops. This page has a lot of information on policies: http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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