Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:31:50 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Seeking an extended-support O/S similar to FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ6F9kjVxosO4LAiAmJAt1rTPOkrwHaHf3vqvXqgkEbWpg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130328231043.GA3666@ethic.thought.org> References: <20130328212955.GJ42080@manor.msen.com> <20130328231043.GA3666@ethic.thought.org>
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I'm confused. Every other minor release of FreeBSD is supported for 2 full years, with no new features added, just security fixes (aka Extended Releases). And every major release of FreeBSD is supported for at least 4, somtimes 5, years. Canonical just shortened their support for LTS to 3 years, including server releases. And you can't get new versions of software on Ubuntu without upgrading the OS or adding random PPA repos. Sometimes you can get a backports repo, but they aren't officially supported. And only the official repos get security updates (if you're lucky). RedHat isn't much better. Sure, they'll support the core OS for 5 years, but you can't install new, up-to-date software on it unless you upgrade the entire OS (been down that road too many times to ever want to try again). We gave up on RedHat after fighting with 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x. FreeBSD isn't perfect (what OS is?), but it's amazing that you can install the newest versions of MySQL, Firefox, KDE, Postfix, etc on 7.4 (until the end of Feb, anyway), or 8.3, or 9.0, or 9.1. And can continue to get security fixes for all those releases (except 7.x now). Good luck installing any of those onto a Linux release from 2-3 years ago. What's missing from FreeBSD support?
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