Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:36:42 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle Message-ID: <4F15B1AA.4020400@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <op.v78i3yxi34t2sn@tech304> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112211415580.19710@kozubik.com> <op.v78i3yxi34t2sn@tech304>
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On 1/17/12 4:39 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets > MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's > frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until > ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! > > More releases / snapshots of -STABLE helps people on physical servers, > but anyone who runs VMs on Xen or VMWare won't get any support for those > versions because they didn't go through the QA process yet. FreeBSD is > increasingly becoming a third world citizen thanks to virtualization > efforts being focused on Linux, so I feel that more frequent releases > won't help as many people as you think. > Running FBSD in a *production* environment means you want something stable and tested. -STABLE does not fulfill the requirements I'm afraid. We've had to downgrade some boxes from 8.2-STABLE to -RELEASE here.
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