From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 11:50:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AA5106566B for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:50:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55618FC14 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p5B22D157.dip.t-dialin.net [91.34.209.87]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oBPBRwLq002407 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:27:59 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBPBRlUw086197 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:27:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oBPBRtg8019001 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:28:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201012251128.oBPBRtg8019001@fire.js.berklix.net> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:52:03 +0100." <201012220852.oBM8q2Qi039123@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:27:55 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Subject: Re: Schedule for releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:50:22 -0000 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.