[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Ottavio Caruso]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 08:57, Yuri Pankov <yuripv at yuripv.me> wrote:
>
> On 19 Feb 2020, at 11:52, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> To a beginner and uninitiated like me, the way FreeBSD labels
> "stable", "release", "releng" and "current" is, at the very least,
> confusing.
>
>
> Thankfully, it is documented: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html.

Yes, it is, but one has to go to chapter 24 of the handbook to
understand how it works. This should be at the very beginning and
explained in simpler terms. Of course, based on the assumption that
you want to new users to use FreeBSD, but if you want to keep the base
small, it's fine just like that.



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Ottavio Caruso