Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:18:10 -0700 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Term support versions? Message-ID: <ED2E4D4E-DB41-497C-8191-4885B77ACFFD@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <20181113111556.f5870a43fbb1fe38db2a9df2@sohara.org> References: <D34900A4-B42E-4377-B9F2-34C1E8EF071C@kreme.com> <20181113111556.f5870a43fbb1fe38db2a9df2@sohara.org>
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On 13 Nov 2018, at 04:15, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 03:50:16 -0700 "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> = wrote: >> And 11,2 is the only current version I see >> <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/announce.html>, but it is = marked >> to be EOLed at 11.3 +3month so where is a stable release that will = have a >> longer support window? >=20 > There isn't one, at least not until 11.<final> whatever <final> = may > be (I'd guess 3 or 4 but that's just my guess), that will remain = supported > until September 2021 which may be long enough for 12.<final> to = arrive. I'd > like to think that, ultimately, tracking n.<final> will become a = viable > strategy. IIRC, this has not been the case in the past. Certainly all support for = 10.x expired long before 11.2-RELEASE and we're quite a long way from = 11-FINAL. I don't think it was true of v4-9 either, but my memory on = that is not necessarily reliable. I ran v3.2-RELEASE for a long time, = but almost certainly far beyond its support window (I updated to 4.5 and = then 4.11 which I kept for years). Having a predefined end-date for support on 11.x is odd when there's no = final version. It seems that 11-FINAL should be supported for a period = of time based on either when 11-FINALE comes out or until 12-FINAL plus = a year or something. I mean, it's great that people are bing encouraged to update, but it's = at the cost of stability. My impression of the Linux world is that LTS windows are increasing = while FreeBSD is not. (Just an impression, I'm not using Linux, but I am = pretty sure a friend is using Mint with a 5 year LTS version). --=20 AUDITORS OF REALITY. THEY THINK OF LIFE AS A STAIN ON THE UNIVERSE. A PESTILENCE. MESSY. GETTING IN THE WAY. 'In the way of what?' THE EFFICIENT RUNNING OF THE UNIVERSE.
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