Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released
by simias on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:42AM
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I've been using FreeBSD since the late 4.x days and I really don't feel the same way. It's always been the same rule of thumb as far as I'm concerned, "try to avoid x.0 releases and don't upgrade to the newer version as long as you don't need a new feature and the n-1 is still supported".
It's also generally very conservative with its feature set, unstable and experimental features are generally very clearly labeled and are not marked as stable until actually stable.
You're a power user and you follow the development of FreeBSD extremely closely and you're frustrated that you have to wait 10 months for a feature to make it into a release. That's understandable. I on the other hand use FreeBSD as some kind of 'install and forget' OS. It's stable, it Just Works and I just need to remember to run freebsd-update from time to time.
>FreeBSD is an operating system by, and for, FreeBSD developers.
I see your point but I'll take that over what seems to be the mindset of most Linux distros these days, "let's dumb everything down and hide everything behind mountains of crappy abstractions to cater to the mythical 'average desktop user' who doesn't even use or care about our OS anyway".
FreeBSD has a very good documentation but it doesn't attempt to dumb things down and assumes a certain level of technical knowledge from its users. I think understanding the release cycle is part of that, all the information is out there, it's up to you to decide what's good for you. CURRENT, release, oldrelease, they all have their use case.
It's also generally very conservative with its feature set, unstable and experimental features are generally very clearly labeled and are not marked as stable until actually stable.
You're a power user and you follow the development of FreeBSD extremely closely and you're frustrated that you have to wait 10 months for a feature to make it into a release. That's understandable. I on the other hand use FreeBSD as some kind of 'install and forget' OS. It's stable, it Just Works and I just need to remember to run freebsd-update from time to time.
>FreeBSD is an operating system by, and for, FreeBSD developers.
I see your point but I'll take that over what seems to be the mindset of most Linux distros these days, "let's dumb everything down and hide everything behind mountains of crappy abstractions to cater to the mythical 'average desktop user' who doesn't even use or care about our OS anyway".
FreeBSD has a very good documentation but it doesn't attempt to dumb things down and assumes a certain level of technical knowledge from its users. I think understanding the release cycle is part of that, all the information is out there, it's up to you to decide what's good for you. CURRENT, release, oldrelease, they all have their use case.