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

[Yuri Pankov]

On 18 Feb 2020, at 20:39, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:51 PM Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 05:37, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Maybe its a time to give OpenBSD a try..
>> 
>> I really don't understand this comment, either. Certainly give OpenBSD
>> a try and if it fits your needs better that's great.
>> 
>> As far as I'm aware OpenBSD issues a release every six months and
>> supports the most recent two releases, so it seems odd to me to
>> complain about FreeBSD's ~1 year minor release support lifetime and 5
>> year stable branch support lifetime in that context.
> 
> Its more like "lets try if what I need works better over there". Not
> really the release timeline.
> 
> The release timeline problem is more related with pushing untested
> features (and possible avalanche of solutions that introduce yet
> another complications that we observe right now).
> 
> "The BSD Way", for me, was always about "it works solid or its not
> there". Like macOS / iOS.
> 
> Unlike "The Linux Way" where things changes upside down from release
> to release and each one of them has its own universe of variants. Like
> Android.
> 
> I am not sure if it is that important if there is a release in 6 month
> or 2 years. Not a problem at all. If in two years I get a 5 new
> features that work rock solid then it seems a better choice than
> getting new features every six months and have more problems on a
> production because of that.
> 
> If I need to experiment there is a CURRENT branch. For well tested
> features I have STABLE. For rock solid "I bet my money on that" I have
> a RELEASE. Right?
> 
> I did miss the 12.0 EoL kind of fix for DRM, sorry, it seems
> reasonable. I am just worried that 12.2-RELEASE will have the same
> problems, if not more new problems.

It is something you can help with, run 12.2-STABLE on some spare equipment and report problems that affect *your* environment.