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What is "The Rift" you mention?
by themerone 5y ago
What is "The Rift" you mention?
- rsync 5y agoThe transition from the 4.x branch of FreeBSD to 5.x. 5.x had all kinds of problems and then 6.x was the first release that barely got out into public use before 7.x undercut it ... and that is the cycle we have been in ever since. 4.x had minor releases going all the way to 4.11. Nowadays, major versions generally stop at X.3 (for instance, 11.3).
- rjsw 5y agoI switched to NetBSD instead of completely wiping 4.11 and installing 5.x.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- Lammy 5y ago5.x was the start of "Giant lock" elimination: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-November/022368.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-Nov... There wasn't a "STABLE" release of it until FreeBSD 5.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_version_history#FreeBSD_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_version_history#FreeBS... FreeBSD may not be a perfectly-run project but I honestly can't imagine using anything else :)