Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:30:10 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <20200218183010.5a52441f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <85E7C97E-EF8B-4FC7-8EF1-758B7BCBAE90@kreme.com> References: <20200217231452.717FA1E820@freefall.freebsd.org> <CAFYkXjmZi1-MB6W0HsMx9gHek7Xg5heoSKKWkNTnw74dxRTwAw@mail.gmail.com> <85E7C97E-EF8B-4FC7-8EF1-758B7BCBAE90@kreme.com>
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:00:18 -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > On 17 Feb 2020, at 20:23, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > > [...] > > FreeBSD does not seem to be reliable desktop environment > > True for ever non-Apple Unix variant. Most (that is to say > nearly all) FreeBSD installs are non0desktop servers. I'm using FreeBSD since 4.0 as my primary desktop. While 12.0 and 12.1 definitely had issues, it never impacted me (or my clients or family), so it's still here as a desktop solution that works. Of course I can understand the "never touch a running system". As an illustration, I still support one special customer who has a FreeBSD 4.4 Or was it 4.10?) system still running (XFree86, _not_ X.org!). There is a replacement ready, but the customer just doesn't want to replace this airgapped and isolated system, because whenever we discuss the options, he tells me: "Never touch a running system. As long as it works, no need to 'fix' something." On desktop systems, especially those including web browsers and so-called "productivity software" (i. e., office suites), security is far more important, as new approaches to broken software concepts and flaky hardware (yes, I'm looking at you, Mister Intelprocessor!) and their exploitation are being invented very quickly. So the OS has to provide the optimal solutions for mitigation. A faster release cycle surely helps a lot. Newer security flaws probably require methods of dealing with them that cannot be easily ported to older releases, so that's probably the reason why they are not supported that long. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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