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Subject: Re: There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
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What=92s the problem with using =91legacy=92?

Tony

On Jun 4, 2014, at 9:52 AM, John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> wrote:

>=20
> freebsd.org website shows the following:
>=20
> Production: 10.0
> Legacy: 9.2, 8.4
> Upcoming: 9.3
>=20
> You can't put an x.0 release into production (a bigotry that is *well =
deserved* in light of 5.0 and 9.0) ... and 9.2 and 8.4 are legacy ... =
and we all know that 9.3 is as far as the 9 branch is going to go, so =
that's a dead end for any serious deployment.
>=20
> Let's pretend for a moment that you are going to use FreeBSD for =
something other than FreeBSD development.  Let's pretend that you have =
customers and shareholders and boardmembers and contracts and =
regulators.
>=20
> Which version of FreeBSD would you use ?
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