+--On 3 septembre 2014 17:17:48 +0200 Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net> wrote: | 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.
You can still go and fetch/build software. You can't do it using the FreeBSD App Store though. -- Mathieu Arnold _______________________________________________ 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"
