[Dovecot] v2.1.rc5 released

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 17:28:50 EET 2012


On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 23:51, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:

> On 1/25/2012 6:01 PM, The Doctor wrote:
> > BSD/OS 4.3.1
>
> A defunct/dead operating system, last released in 2003, support
> withdrawn in 2004.  BSDI went belly up.  Wind River acquired and then
> killed BSD/OS.  You're using a dead, 9 year old OS, that hasn't seen
> official updates for 8 years.
>
> Do you think it's fair to ask application developers to support the
> oddities of your one-of-a-kind, ancient, patchwork of a platform?
>
> We've had this discussion before.  And I don't believe you ever provided
> a sane rational for continuing to use an OS that's been officially dead
> for 8 years.  What is the reason you are unable or unwilling to migrate
> to a newer and supported no cost BSD variant, or Linux distro?
>
> You're trying to run bleeding edge Dovecot, compiling it from source, on
> an 8 year old platform...
>
>
Maybe "The Doctor" has no idea on how to migrate. I see no other sane
reason to continue running that OS.

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