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FreeBSD is switching to a 5 year window.
by corv 11y ago
FreeBSD is switching to a 5 year window.
- kchoudhu 11y agoFor point releases? Or for ABI compatibility? Edit: Went digging. Here's the link: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-Fe... It's for ABI compatibility. It certainly adds a certain amount of certainty to the planning process. Right now, I'm running off 11.0-CURRENT in preparation for a deployment or around August 2016, which gives me certainty of support until mid-2021.
- kev009 11y agoAre you doing HW that is frozen in time? I would suggest that many things should be branch rebased roughly every two years unless there are extreme circumstances. I think EMC Isilon has recently realized this as example.