From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Jun 3 07:26:24 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD056B68D6A for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:26:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:c4ea:bd49:619b:6cb3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38BEA1947 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:26:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liminal.local (liminal.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3636:3bff:fed4:b0d6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 158C9C071 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/158C9C071; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: old ports/packages To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> <20160504070341.GV740@mail0.byshenk.net> <3dfd6fea-da32-b922-65d1-f64b8e113112@toco-domains.de> <6e340f95-6d10-4991-0cd6-95d336e2f044@gjunka.com> <3e55c7d8-801c-a2b3-e92e-9945e896142b@toco-domains.de> <5809f808-8b16-93ed-5351-828a7d68eb2b@unsane.co.uk> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <0df231f8-9f11-bb33-4189-b0e49a5eb1b4@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 08:26:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uvSAScMb0jamha8rRptxXoBCC7bwgDXrG" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.1 at smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:26:24 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --uvSAScMb0jamha8rRptxXoBCC7bwgDXrG Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="fml8QKMrVm3LJ5B9F52I59IgTF34KRp6e" From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <0df231f8-9f11-bb33-4189-b0e49a5eb1b4@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: old ports/packages References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> <20160504070341.GV740@mail0.byshenk.net> <3dfd6fea-da32-b922-65d1-f64b8e113112@toco-domains.de> <6e340f95-6d10-4991-0cd6-95d336e2f044@gjunka.com> <3e55c7d8-801c-a2b3-e92e-9945e896142b@toco-domains.de> <5809f808-8b16-93ed-5351-828a7d68eb2b@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: --fml8QKMrVm3LJ5B9F52I59IgTF34KRp6e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/06/2016 21:08, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > It's not fair to compare RedHat to FreeBSD. Companies pay good money to= > maintain the support for the systems they are using. They don't pay > FreeBSD a penny. I think the real issue preventing a wider adoption at > companies is not that there is no LTS but that there is no commercial > entity that would maintain its own LTS version of FreeBSD base and > packages and make it available to companies with paid support options. > There are only companies who can provide general support for FreeBSD as= > a service. Have you heard about what Xinuos are doing with FreeBSD? http://www.xinuos.com/menu-products/openserver-10 Xinuos' whole ethos is in providing long term commercial support, and their new platform is built on FreeBSD. 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