Seeking an extended-support O/S similar to FreeBSD

[Adrian Chadd]

Again, no-one is going to really complain if vendors/users decide to step
up and run longer supported branches.

I personally encourage that. I _encourage_ that people who are interested
in keeping 6.x and earlier alive (and 7.x soon, and 8.x less soon) to jump
in and submit patches to backport fixes and whatnot.

The problem isn't that we don't want to - it's that we just don't have the
collective time and energy to backport things to branches we're not using.
If you're a company with a heavy investment in older branches, please
consider what I've said. Participate in FreeBSD development and offer to
support branches for longer. But please don't complain to a bunch of
volunteers who look after stuff in their spare time, or companies who fund
work for FreeBSD branches that they're using.

The 'project' does what its users and developers contribute to.



Adrian