[HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool
Michelle Sullivan
michelle at sorbs.net
Wed Sep 3 15:17:51 UTC 2014
Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
> <michelle at 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.
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Michelle Sullivan
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