Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:49:06 +0100 From: =?utf-8?q?ozgur=40kazancci=2Ecom?= <ozgur@kazancci.com> To: "Tomasz CEDRO" <tomek@cedro.info> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A?==?utf-8?q?_=5BFreeBSD-Announce=5D?= FreeBSD =?utf-8?q?12=2E0?= end-of-life Message-ID: <1aaf-5e4c3180-19-32bea140@106400311> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjk=rpp_8nD=xGirghCLouRAsC-N%2BJJppMKDQN0aGKnKDw@mail.gmail.com>
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> I am not sure if it is that important if there is a release in 6 mont= h or 2 years. Not a problem at all. If in two years I get a 5 new > features that work rock solid then it seems a better choice than > getting new features every six months and have more problems on a > production because of that. Totally agree that. ^^ People usually move from Linux distros to OpenBSD/FreeBSD to....calm do= wn a little&focus on system management/usage/administration and feel tr= ue UNIX stability. Having brand new (and untested) fancy features&grabbing an upper OS ver= sion/release number is -imvho- the last choice of *BSD users/sys.admins= . Best, =C3=96zg=C3=BCr Kazancci On 18 February, 2020 20:39 +03, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: = > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:51 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 05:37, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote= : > > > > > > Maybe its a time to give OpenBSD a try.. > > > > I really don't understand this comment, either. Certainly give Open= BSD > > a try and if it fits your needs better that's great. > > > > As far as I'm aware OpenBSD issues a release every six months and > > supports the most recent two releases, so it seems odd to me to > > complain about FreeBSD's ~1 year minor release support lifetime and= 5 > > year stable branch support lifetime in that context. > > Its more like "lets try if what I need works better over there". Not > really the release timeline. > > The release timeline problem is more related with pushing untested > features (and possible avalanche of solutions that introduce yet > another complications that we observe right now). > > "The BSD Way", for me, was always about "it works solid or its not > there". Like macOS / iOS. > > Unlike "The Linux Way" where things changes upside down from release > to release and each one of them has its own universe of variants. Lik= e > Android. > > I am not sure if it is that important if there is a release in 6 mont= h > or 2 years. Not a problem at all. If in two years I get a 5 new > features that work rock solid then it seems a better choice than > getting new features every six months and have more problems on a > production because of that. > > If I need to experiment there is a CURRENT branch. For well tested > features I have STABLE. For rock solid "I bet my money on that" I hav= e > a RELEASE. Right? > > I did miss the 12.0 EoL kind of fix for DRM, sorry, it seems > reasonable. I am just worried that 12.2-RELEASE will have the same > problems, if not more new problems. > > Maybe I should go back to 11 and see how things work over there :-P > > Tomek > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freeb= sd.org"
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