There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.
andrew clarke
mail at ozzmosis.com
Wed Jun 4 19:26:12 UTC 2014
On Wed 2014-06-04 15:34:37 UTC-0230, 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:
The Subject: line is trollbait but I think at the very least "legacy"
is a confusing term to use, with unneccessarily (in this instance)
negative connotations for what is after all very good, reliable,
supported, software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_code
Merely a documentation issue, not a code quality/@hackers issue.
Regards
Andrew
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