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Date:      Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:47:06 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@freebsd.org>
To:        John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <19839.1401922026@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406041316440.2120@kozubik.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406040944570.2120@kozubik.com> <18771.1401901640@critter.freebsd.dk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406041316440.2120@kozubik.com>

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In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406041316440.2120@kozubik.com>, John Kozubik writes:

>>> Which version of FreeBSD would you use ?
>>
>> -current ?
>
>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.

And that's exactly why I'd start with -current.  By the time you're
ready to go live, it will be -stable.

If you start at 8, 9 or 10 now, you'll be overdue to upgrade by the
time you go live.

Always be ahead of the curve.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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