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On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406040944570.2120@kozubik.com>, John Kozubik writes:
>
>> Which version of FreeBSD would you use ?
>
> -current ?



>From the FreeBSD Handbook:


"... it is really only of interest to developers working on the system and 
die-hard hobbyists."

"No claims are made that any -CURRENT snapshot can be considered 
production quality for any purpose."


I don't think you noticed the first part of my question, which was:


>> 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.