Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

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Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
Date
7 Jun 2008 22:02:21
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Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3
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On Jun 7, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> Comparing us with, e.g., Solaris, we would not find a lot of
> difference
> in the support model. Althought they formally provide patches for

Huh? I'm totally not saying that you should be trying to match the
support model of a large corporation, this statement is outright
wrong. I can still get security patches for Solaris 2.8 which shipped
almost 6 years ago now.

Again, I'm not saying that 6 years is reasonable for FreeBSD - just
pointing out that the statement is invalid.

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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness




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