On Jun 15, 2012 9:39 AM, "Peter Jeremy" <pe...@rulingia.com> wrote: > > On 2012-Jun-14 08:09:30 +0100, Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates > >and support stop. > > There's nothing stopping you from from running -stable in production. > Obviously, you will need to do more extensive testing than you might > need to for a -release. > > As for EoL, all software goes EoL and support for that software stops. > FreeBSD releases are typically supported for 4 years - IMO, that's > excellent value for money. > > On 2012-Jun-14 12:48:19 +0100, Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Jun 14, 2012 9:30 AM, "Damien Fleuriot" <m...@my.gd> wrote: > >> I've moved us to 8.3-STABLE recently and am quite happy with it, so far. > > > >Too strong wording perhaps; but you can't claim that an EOL stable branch > >will have the level of support afforded to live branches. That was > >supposed to be my point, as Mark has also explained. > > You are the only person that is claiming that 8.x is EOL. I have not > seen any official announcement to that effect. The absence of an > announcement of 8.4-release does not make it EOL.
Of course not. The fear that this whole thread is about the possibility of EoL this year or soon; the OP wants support for longer. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
