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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:01:04 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Using RELENG_8 to compile for older RELENG_x
Message-ID:  <20091216130104.GA18870@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091216115452.GA1888@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <d2e731a10912160115v76d413e1kcf2968886134183e@mail.gmail.com> <20091216102850.GA99834@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091216105546.GG14175@lonesome.com> <20091216115452.GA1888@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:54:52PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> In the days before 5.3 or even 6.0 I could understand why people clung to
> 4.x. But now it seems like inviting trouble.

5.3 still had a lot of sharp edges (a lot of things were merged into it
just prior to release).  But at this point, we're even phasing out 6.x.
Really, I would hope that everyone except people embedding FreeBSD into
their products (and thus have long development cycles) would be on 7.x
by now.  It has a much better chance of running on modern hardware.

mcl



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