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From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>
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Subject: There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.
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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.

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.

Which version of FreeBSD would you use ?