Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:47:04 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD. Message-ID: <7b7737a473e012b0604e44d0154d6fd5@mail.feld.me> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406040944570.2120@kozubik.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406040944570.2120@kozubik.com>
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On 2014-06-04 11:52, John Kozubik wrote: > freebsd.org website shows the following: > > Production: 10.0 > Legacy: 9.2, 8.4 > Upcoming: 9.3 > > You can't put an x.0 release into production (a bigotry that is *well > deserved* in light of 5.0 and 9.0) ... and 9.2 and 8.4 are legacy ... > and we all know that 9.3 is as far as the 9 branch is going to go, so > that's a dead end for any serious deployment. > Yes you can. You don't blindly update systems without knowing what you're getting into, so test test test. See also: Netflix's presentation from vBSDCon: "Dis-spelling the myth of the 'dot-oh' release". > Let's pretend for a moment that you are going to use FreeBSD for > something other than FreeBSD development. Let's pretend that you have > customers and shareholders and boardmembers and contracts and > regulators. I do. They're all on FreeBSD 10.0. > > Which version of FreeBSD would you use ? > 10.0. It's the best release FreeBSD has had in... years?
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