There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.

[Mark Felder]

On 2014-06-04 11:52, John Kozubik wrote:
> freebsd.org website shows the following:
> 
> Production: 10.0
> Legacy: 9.2, 8.4
> Upcoming: 9.3
> 
> You can't put an x.0 release into production (a bigotry that is *well
> deserved* in light of 5.0 and 9.0) ... and 9.2 and 8.4 are legacy ...
> and we all know that 9.3 is as far as the 9 branch is going to go, so
> that's a dead end for any serious deployment.
> 

Yes you can. You don't blindly update systems without knowing what 
you're getting into, so test test test.

See also: Netflix's presentation from vBSDCon: "Dis-spelling the myth of 
the 'dot-oh' release".


> Let's pretend for a moment that you are going to use FreeBSD for
> something other than FreeBSD development.  Let's pretend that you have
> customers and shareholders and boardmembers and contracts and
> regulators.

I do. They're all on FreeBSD 10.0.

> 
> Which version of FreeBSD would you use ?
> 

10.0. It's the best release FreeBSD has had in... years?