It certainly adds a certain amount of certainty to the planning process. Right now, I'm running off 11.0-CURRENT in preparation for a deployment or around August 2016, which gives me certainty of support until mid-2021.
Re:FreeBSD 10.3
by kev009 on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:12AM
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Are you doing HW that is frozen in time? I would suggest that many things should be branch rebased roughly every two years unless there are extreme circumstances. I think EMC Isilon has recently realized this as example.
Edit: Went digging. Here's the link: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-Fe...
It's for ABI compatibility.
It certainly adds a certain amount of certainty to the planning process. Right now, I'm running off 11.0-CURRENT in preparation for a deployment or around August 2016, which gives me certainty of support until mid-2021.