From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 29 10:55:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D53316A412 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:55:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3E943D46 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:55:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost (monrovll-cuda1-24-53-251-44.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.251.44]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:55:04 -0400 id 00056412.44A3B188.000088FC Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:55:03 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Anish Mistry Message-Id: <20060629065503.25a07e4d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <200606282338.01102.mistry.7@osu.edu> References: <20060629012612.77051.qmail@web52404.mail.yahoo.com> <200606282338.01102.mistry.7@osu.edu> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: probsdorg@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 4 series 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: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:55:06 -0000 Anish Mistry wrote: > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 21:26, probsd org wrote: > > Everything I need is in FreeBSD 4-STABLE so I see no reason to > > switch to FBSD 5* > > > > I realize no further advancements are being made in the 4 branch, > > but my question is for how long will I be SAFE using FBSD 4* and > > when is the targeted date to stop offering security updates that > > affect 4*? > http://security.freebsd.org/ > > You should be transitioning to 6.x now/soon. ??? 4.11 will be supported for another 18 months. I have servers that are scheduled for hardware retirement before then -- I'm not upgrading them. Why should I? They're doing their job perfectly well. You should review the the security support information and make sure that you plan to upgrade/replace before anything becomes unsupported. -- Bill Moran Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver. Jayne Cobb