From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 11 07:17:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8D99EB for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:17:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177088FC08 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id a19so2884265qad.13 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:17:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9Jeec8aCHQSdUgv6CFss2rn3YwxeRn2A96P3ZrcbQog=; b=h+9z8ncmiV6Y5GFfUnNAzbUHo1wESCNSxtGFrWQFQtrOwe1FQ/Cks3s2uWgr0c/ezW DoiV21ASubQkrsRiojH8ARn2y6o0ZgFOLW2qgq5VS1K7H/8/PteevysgGamNTdx+ri7i 69EDof2lF5WaD2UPRFxaGDp/hSOKTJrsfuNjl4z+2oeIjkaSapWpLRQrNqb6fmUviLtl rjN9kbK17SY8DRA+9KI0NyT4O451YdzloYejnCtZ8KGH0Icn539Mq9I77Xu24trsnx+N 5IQDqIkcbxab7BWCZAZVG7EKZ0TQ7ydCUyGuueyseJ4+HxG0eNsAABhGvCx/+MG5zNJq HjFg== Received: by 10.224.189.137 with SMTP id de9mr31676051qab.87.1355210251195; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (ool-44c0cdb5.dyn.optonline.net. [68.192.205.181]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h16sm16985139qae.8.2012.12.10.23.17.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:17:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50C6DE14.4040303@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:17:40 -0500 From: Stephen Cook User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:17:32 -0000 On 12/11/2012 1:52 AM, Anonymous wrote: > We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project > to meet its future release dates. Similarly, I'm a bit concerned that 9.0 loses support at the end of January, but there is no release date for 9.1 (at http://www5.us.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html, the last actual date shown is November 3, 2012, for RC3). I'm confused as to the best course of action: continue to use an unsupported version and hope the new one comes out sooner than later, or downgrade to a supported version (8.3). I know FreeBSD is free and community-supported, but this still seems a bit... improper? Right now I'm only dealing with personal machines (and nothing truly vital at that), but I am formulating plans to use FreeBSD commercially and this makes me uneasy. -- Stephen