There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.

Jason Hellenthal jhellenthal at dataix.net
Wed Jun 4 18:35:46 UTC 2014


Legacy . . . 
adjectiveCOMPUTING
1.
denoting software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.


What about that says unsupported ?

-- 
 Jason Hellenthal
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> On Jun 4, 2014, at 14:04, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Tony Li wrote:
>> What’s the problem with using ‘legacy’?
> 
> Is the problem actually that we're using the term "legacy", which some vendors use to mean "unsupported"? Perhaps we ought to say:
> 
> Supported releases:
> Latest: 10.0
> Also supported: 9.2, 8.4
> 
> or something more explicit about branch lifetimes (in keeping with the new policy):
> 
> Supported branches:
> 10.x - supported until x/y/zz, current release 10.0
> 9.x - supported until x/y/zz, current release 9.2
> 8.x - supported until x/y/zz, current release 8.4
> 
> ?
> 
> 
> Jon
> -- 
> Jonathan Anderson
> jonathan at FreeBSD.org
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