Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

Colin Percival wrote:
John Smith wrote:
Support for FreeBSD 4.11 is going to end sometime in late January.
Originally, FreeBSD 6.2 was supposed to be released back in October. This
would have given everyone about 3 months to stress test everything and
migrate all their boxes from 4.11 direct to 6.2.

You've had three months to stress test 6.2-BETA1, 6.2-BETA2, 6.2-BETA3, and
6.2-RC1. We release these for a reason, you know.

Now it is near the end of
December, and FreeBSD 6.2 RC2 has yet to be seen anywhere. Chances are that
FreeBSD 6.2 Release will come out earliest mid-January. This does not give
much time for people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD release. I think it
would be fair if support is extended for a few more months especially since
6.2 is so late in coming.

Your opinion has been noted.

Colin Percival

I have to second the OP's opinion. :-)
I think it is important to be able to stress test the *final* release before installing on production machines. There is little use in stress testing BETAs and then install a broken RELEASE.
This happened with 6.1-RELEASE where the nfs server was suddenly unusable on amd64.

Regards,

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