Re:?==?utf-8?q? [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[ozgur@kazancci.com]

"Why so short End-Of-Life? Why so many fast and short releases? What for?" 

That's the question of the century. I got the very same question as above. I hate bitchin' about Open-Source free stuff, but that's really too much. Very short EoL - so many releases, it's head-aching (a.k.a. shaking).

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Özgür Kazancci,
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On 18 February, 2020 06:23 +03, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> wrote: 
 
> Why so short End-Of-Life? Why so many fast and short releases? What for?
> 
> Why pushing problems to production? What was wrong with having one
> well tested stable system for a long time?
> 
> 12.0 was a problematic release. 12.1 brings even more problems.
> 
> To be honest X11 Video Acceleration DRM mess and dramatic
> Virtualization with VirtualBox brings back my MacBook to the desk
> because FreeBSD does not seem to be reliable desktop environment
> anymore even on a decent modern machine :-(
> 
> Is it really necessary? What happened to FreeBSD? :-(
> 
> Tomek
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:14 AM FreeBSD Security Officer wrote:
> >
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> > Dear FreeBSD community,
> >
> > As of February 29, 2020, FreeBSD 12.0 will reach end-of-life and will no longer
> > be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team.  Users of FreeBSD 12.0 are strongly
> > encouraged to upgrade to a newer release as soon as possible.
> >
> > The currently supported branches and releases and their expected end-of-life
> > dates are:
> >
> >  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >  |   Branch    |   Release    |  Release Date     |      Estimated EoL      |
> >  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
> >  | stable/12   | N/A          | N/A               | June 30, 2024           |
> >  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
> >  | releng/12.1 | 12.1-RELEASE | November 4, 2019  | 12.2-RELEASE + 3 months |
> >  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
> >  | stable/11   | N/A          | N/A               | September 30, 2021      |
> >  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
> >  | releng/11.3 | 11.3-RELEASE | July 9, 2019      | 11.4-RELEASE + 3 months |
> >  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > Please refer to https://security.freebsd.org/ for an up-to-date list of
> > supported releases and the latest security advisories.
> >
> > - --
> > The FreeBSD Security Team
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