There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.

Tony Li tony.li at tony.li
Wed Jun 4 17:20:45 UTC 2014


What’s the problem with using ‘legacy’?

Tony

On Jun 4, 2014, at 9:52 AM, John Kozubik <john at kozubik.com> wrote:

> 
> freebsd.org website shows the following:
> 
> Production: 10.0
> Legacy: 9.2, 8.4
> Upcoming: 9.3
> 
> You can't put an x.0 release into production (a bigotry that is *well deserved* in light of 5.0 and 9.0) ... and 9.2 and 8.4 are legacy ... and we all know that 9.3 is as far as the 9 branch is going to go, so that's a dead end for any serious deployment.
> 
> Let's pretend for a moment that you are going to use FreeBSD for something other than FreeBSD development.  Let's pretend that you have customers and shareholders and boardmembers and contracts and regulators.
> 
> Which version of FreeBSD would you use ?
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