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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:26:43 -0500
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life
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In-Reply-To: <20200218205940.04917783.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:59:40 +0100, Polytropon stated:
>Exactly! This, in combination with the "testing and refinement"
>process HEAD -> STABLE -> RELEASE, allows FreeBSD to be such a
>versatile operating system: Not only is it _not_ tied to a
>specific kidn of use (a desktop, a server, an appliance), but
>one OS can be used for all those cases, and even for "mixed
>forms", such as a desktop machine providing server functions;
>it also allows you to have _one_ OS and still choose if you
>want to follow an experimental, a bleeding-edge, or a rock solid
>state of the system. And whatever you choose, you get the full
>power of all the applications in the ports collection (wuth a
>few restrictions). Maybe I'm just stupid and ignorant, but
>what other OS families can offer all this? :-)

That is, of course, based on the assumption that you can even get
the OS to install and run.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237666>;

-- 
Jerry



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