Mathieu Arnold wrote: > +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan > <miche...@sorbs.net> wrote: > | Mathieu Arnold wrote: > |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's *End Of > |> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more. > |> > |> > | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore... > > Not at all, but you don't update them any more. > > Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any EOL release...
Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing updates, then later stopped providing security updates. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
