Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:09:33 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: security-officer@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsdfoundation.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, gljennjohn@googlemail.com Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon Message-ID: <201009011609.o81G9XEQ011268@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:31:40 PDT." <4C7E71DC.1040808@freebsd.org>
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> On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their FreeBSD -7 & -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. DSL is faster than ISDN, but Losing ISDN would be unfortunate: - Not all can get DSL speed, if they live far from phone exchange. - ISDN allows one more security (caller ID comes from phone company), additional to whatever crypto keys/passwords. - ISDN on the PC allows one to have Name (via lookup of number) of phone caller & which incoming destination number received call, show up on an X Term - I've had that with FreeBSD over 10+ years now :-) Could easily be hooked to a database springing up a a custome xterm according to calling customer ID, called number & time of day (all being used to select which service info ) But if we drop ISDN ...! Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project ? - FreeBSD foundation paying a FreeBSD consultant (I know one who has the expertise already, has the time, & could use some money (I don't mean me, & he didn't aske me to post this, it'll come as a suprise to him :-) - Or whatever other method to get ISDN back in kernel ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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