Re: Change to FreeBSD release scheduling etc.

Andrea Venturoli to Peter:

> > In short, it takes me about 3 months to catch the
> > surprizes[*] and fix (or find out how to cope with) the
> > concerning issues, regressions et al. that come along
> > with a new release. Up to now that would then give
> > another 9 months during which the systems can be
> > operated in a plan-of-record fashion, until the next
> > release starts the hassle again.  With the new concept
> > this does seriousely change.
> > [...]
>
> I'd be happy to hear if others have any idea or what they
> plan to do.

I am very new to FreeBSD, and completely inexperienced, so
what I have to say below may be wrong and even silly, and I
ask to let me know if it is:

In my limited experice with some *nix-like OSes, they have
to be updated more or less regularly lest they "sink" into
an obsolete state whence it is /very/ difficult to restore
them back up into updated and workable condition, what with
dependency hell and deprecated repositories. Sometimes so
much so, that installing a freshly downloaded distro is
easier.

On the other hand, upgrades do introduce
regressions -- whether many or few, so as a casual user
desktop user, I naturally want less hassle and longer
periods of stable operation between the necessary upgrades.