@cperciva, I think rsync point is that it hasn't been since 4.x that a release had had more than 3-4 dot release. Just look at the version history. Most major releases are only developed for approx 2 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#Version_history

@rsync, is there any other BSD out there that has a better model than FreeBSD? (E.g. netbsd, openbsd, dragonflybsd)