FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[richo]

On 18/01/12 10:07 +1300, Atom Smasher wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote:
>
>>To be fair, it could be worse -- OpenBSD secretly wants you to run
>>snapshots and CURRENT as the RELEASEs are mostly unmaintained
>>outside of the most extreme security concerns. Even the packages
>>are kept at the exact version of the time of release.
>=============
>
>and how many corps are running openBSD? talk about an OS that seems
>to exist only as a playground for its developers...
>

This is more or less like Debian in regards to their packaging.

Admittedly, OpenBSD is way up there on the paranoia scale, but I know of
plenty of big companies running OpenBSD on large scale routing
infrastructure.

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