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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:06:23 +0200
From:      Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
To:        Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Change to FreeBSD release scheduling etc.
Message-ID:  <af32e5f5-b12d-4f77-8d8c-bcc1eb72b56e@netfence.it>
In-Reply-To: <20240715132403.997c4734a02fea34a049220a@gmail.com>
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On 7/15/24 12:24, Anton Shepelev wrote:

> In my limited experice with some *nix-like OSes, they have
> to be updated more or less regularly lest they "sink" into
> an obsolete state whence it is /very/ difficult to restore
> them back up into updated and workable condition, what with
> dependency hell and deprecated repositories. Sometimes so
> much so, that installing a freshly downloaded distro is
> easier.

That's never been the case with FreeBSD (at least IME).
Guess it's due to its "you should know what you're doing" attitude, in 
contrast to the magic that other *nix-like OSes pretend to do.

  bye
	av.



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