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Five years seems like a long time to support an OS release, especially for a volunteer project. Do you know if there was any consideration/discussion around a s
by stock_toaster 12y ago
Five years seems like a long time to support an OS release, especially for a volunteer project. Do you know if there was any consideration/discussion around a shorter lifecycle (like 3 or 4 years)?
- cperciva 12y agoYes, there have been people who want to reduce the support timeline. There are also people (mostly vendors who build products on FreeBSD, but also companies which run lots of FreeBSD servers) who wanted a longer support timeline. Like most things, five years was a compromise. :-)
- stock_toaster 12y agoI am sure I can only imagine. :) Thanks for the info!