CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 8, 2008 1:49:35 PM +0200 Andy Kosela <andy.kosela at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
> FreeBSD has always been known for its legendary stability and mature
> code base which is why many commercial companies depend on it every
> day. "The anomaly" as someone said of long term support for 4.x releases
> only helped to see FreeBSD as more stable and viable solution than Linux
> by many businesses. Mission critical systems needs long term support
> (read: at least backporting security patches) and stable systems that
> can run for years without interruption. When it comes to stability vs
> development maybe there is time to rethink FreeBSD overall strategy and
> goals. Major companies using FreeBSD in their infrastructure like Yahoo!
> or Juniper Networks would definetly benefit from such moves focused on
> long term support of stable releases. I honestly think it is in their
> interest to support, even financially

Interesting thoughts.  Maybe the time is ripe for a RedHat-like support 
company for FreeBSD.

Paul Schmehl
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