Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:27:55 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Schedule for releases Message-ID: <201012251128.oBPBRtg8019001@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:52:03 %2B0100." <201012220852.oBM8q2Qi039123@lurza.secnetix.de>
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For interest: An HP.com presentation recently said support for major releases is typically 13/14 years I recall. They have different business environment though. I'm not suggesting FreeBSD should do similar. Oliver Fromme wrote: > For me, personally, one significant problem is that I don't > have the resources to easily run several versions of FreeBSD > at home. > > I have a stable/8 installation, but I can't easily install > another one (i.e. stable/7) at the same time, which would > be required for testing and support. Well, I could set up > a dual-boot environment somehow with a second disk, but > that's time-consuming and annoying. Repartitioning is too tedious, so for last few few years I've been sacrificing maybe 7% of new disc space: I install with an MBR of 3 slices of eg 15 Gig + 4th slice of common space, eg 430 Gig). S1 installed with binaries, S4 with common data eg /usr/cvs & current ports etc. Later S2 & S3 get installed with newer BSD versions. Useful if some ports won't build during upgrade, & for recovery. I've not tried virtualbox with other slices yet, which would save reboot time, & avoid closing other processes eg X server & apps. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, or HTML or base 64. Avoid top posting, it cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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