Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:25:07 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs Message-ID: <50C6DFD3.3010607@ose.nl> In-Reply-To: <50C6DE14.4040303@gmail.com> References: <ec18f51e396d76daab520d5a15190f57@foto.nl1.torservers.net> <50C6DE14.4040303@gmail.com>
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On 12/11/2012 08:17 AM, Stephen Cook wrote: > 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. Well for production servers I have the habit of staying on 8.3-RELEASE, in this case, which is supported until April 30 2014 and then move them to 9.1-RELEASE I have been doing so for previous releases also, no need to get worried. For personal and testing systems, like being not for clients production systems, I use whatever is desired, RELEASE, BETA, or RC (freebsd-update) and STABLE, or CURRENT (source svn)
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