Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

[Colin Percival]

Brett Glass wrote:
> So, I am wondering if I should stick with 4.11, favoring fast single
> CPUs over multiprocessor systems, for production machines -- and then 
> jump to 6.0 when it's released. Will security fixes be available long 
> enough for me to do this if need be?

My personal recommendation is to move to 5.x now; but to answer your
question: Yes.  FreeBSD 4.11 is supported until January 2007, and the
latest plans (that I've heard, at least) have FreeBSD 6.0 coming out
some time in late 2005.

Colin Percival