Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:52:33 +0000 From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <CAEJNuHycWihEj0_61bW2WBBU3vWmqQHKWKd3DqCXtLAD%2BWof5A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D2835D98-3303-4DE7-A98D-82035535E18B@yuripv.me> References: <20200217231452.717FA1E820@freefall.freebsd.org> <CAFYkXjmZi1-MB6W0HsMx9gHek7Xg5heoSKKWkNTnw74dxRTwAw@mail.gmail.com> <20200218091959.b0220ac75bcfbbced91a5708@sohara.org> <CAFYkXjmWBUDyV3XKL1qwt=g0AUgDttDfOB6euKqJMAmOs-1Prw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2D4Dyq6P6sZZ70R1cG%2BNoVcv808sbQeSWTzTrNELnH8ew@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjk=rpp_8nD=xGirghCLouRAsC-N%2BJJppMKDQN0aGKnKDw@mail.gmail.com> <D2835D98-3303-4DE7-A98D-82035535E18B@yuripv.me>
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 00:49, Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.me> wrote: > > On 18 Feb 2020, at 20:39, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:51 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 05:37, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@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. To a beginner and uninitiated like me, the way FreeBSD labels "stable", "release", "releng" and "current" is, at the very least, confusing. -- Ottavio Caruso
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