[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Valeri Galtsev]

> On Feb 18, 2020, at 5:00 AM, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
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> On 17 Feb 2020, at 20:23, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> wrote:
>> Why so short End-Of-Life? Why so many fast and short releases? What for?
> 
> This was vcovered a few years ago (well, “few” when the new timelines were being discussed.
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>> What was wrong with having one well tested stable system for a long time?
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> The need to ensure systems are running secure software and are not trivially exploitable.
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>> FreeBSD does not seem to be reliable desktop environment
> 
> True for ever non-Apple Unix variant. Most (that is to say nearly all) FreeBSD installs are non0desktop servers.
> 

I have workstation (desktop) running FreeBSD. One of the systems my Laptop runs is FreeBSD as well. Nothing unreliable about both. And from what is said on this list, I’m not the only one.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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