Re: There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.

On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote:

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> What=92s the problem with using =91legacy=92?
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> Tony
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> On Jun 4, 2014, at 9:52 AM, John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> wrote:
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>> freebsd.org website shows the following:
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>> Production: 10.0
>> Legacy: 9.2, 8.4
>> Upcoming: 9.3
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>> You can't put an x.0 release into production (a bigotry that is *well de=
served* 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 dea=
d end for any serious deployment.
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>> Let's pretend for a moment that you are going to use FreeBSD for somethi=
ng other than FreeBSD development.  Let's pretend that you have customers a=
nd shareholders and boardmembers and contracts and regulators.
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>> Which version of FreeBSD would you use ?
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If I was putting together a production system today, I would use 9.2 p7.  W=
hen 9.3
comes out, I would upgrade to it after evaluating it.  Even though 9.3 is t=
he end
of the 9.x line, it will still be supported for 3 years after it comes out.

10.0 is a big enough change that I would hold off until 10.2 before using i=
t unless
I needed something in 10 that wasn=92t in 9.  I typically hold off until a =
x.2 release
to put something in production as by that time, there are usually no surpri=
ses.

Kim

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