[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Tomasz CEDRO]

Hello Poly :-)

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 6:31 PM Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On desktop systems, especially those including web browsers
> and so-called "productivity software" (i. e., office suites),
> security is far more important, as new approaches to broken
> software concepts and flaky hardware (yes, I'm looking at
> you, Mister Intelprocessor!) and their exploitation are
> being invented very quickly. So the OS has to provide the
> optimal solutions for mitigation. A faster release cycle
> surely helps a lot. Newer security flaws probably require
> methods of dealing with them that cannot be easily ported
> to older releases, so that's probably the reason why they
> are not supported that long.

Sure thing, this is why there are PATCH updates every time they are
important for kernel and base security / stability / other fixes
reasons.. also ports provide their own "on demand" updates that are
separate from base :-)

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