Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:33:24 -0500 From: Kim Shrier <kim@westryn.net> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> Subject: Re: There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD. Message-ID: <87E37241-F2C0-46A1-9FC5-6DEE7AAAABD8@westryn.net> In-Reply-To: <332D72DF-2225-40E2-B246-0786181AAB51@tony.li> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406040944570.2120@kozubik.com> <332D72DF-2225-40E2-B246-0786181AAB51@tony.li>
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On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote: > > What’s the problem with using ‘legacy’? > > Tony > > On Jun 4, 2014, at 9:52 AM, John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> wrote: > >> >> freebsd.org website shows the following: >> >> Production: 10.0 >> Legacy: 9.2, 8.4 >> Upcoming: 9.3 >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> Which version of FreeBSD would you use ? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" If I was putting together a production system today, I would use 9.2 p7. When 9.3 comes out, I would upgrade to it after evaluating it. Even though 9.3 is the end of the 9.x line, it will still be supported for 3 years after it comes out. 10.0 is a big enough change that I would hold off until 10.2 before using it unless I needed something in 10 that wasn’t in 9. I typically hold off until a x.2 release to put something in production as by that time, there are usually no surprises. Kimhelp
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