FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 1/17/12 4:39 PM, Mark Felder wrote:
> Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets
> MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's
> frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until
> ESX 5 to officially support 8.2!
> 
> More releases / snapshots of -STABLE helps people on physical servers,
> but anyone who runs VMs on Xen or VMWare won't get any support for those
> versions because they didn't go through the QA process yet. FreeBSD is
> increasingly becoming a third world citizen thanks to virtualization
> efforts being focused on Linux, so I feel that more frequent releases
> won't help as many people as you think.
>

Running FBSD in a *production* environment means you want something
stable and tested.

-STABLE does not fulfill the requirements I'm afraid.

We've had to downgrade some boxes from 8.2-STABLE to -RELEASE here.