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Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity,
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on 18/01/2012 01:09 Devin Teske said the following:
> I'm ready to say that the 9-series should instead be the "chosen
> outlier" when it comes to picking one single release to have an ultra-wide
> lifecycle.

But how can you say that without knowing what will (can) come in 10.  Maybe it
will have something that would be a complete re-write, but something that you
would super-want.
IMO, it's the whole purpose of our present stable branches policy to let users
try/test/use new/advanced features sooner, all while having a choice.

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Andriy Gapon