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Re:FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and li... by throw0101a on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:42AM (#30101115)
> I wonder if FreeBSD would benefit from some documentation or packaging to make this more of a covered area?

FreBSD also supports in-place upgrades for major version numbers:

* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/

* https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/freebsd-13-released-ho...

There could be policy reasons why someone may decent not to do it: if you have a large fleet of cattle machines it may be easier to just redeploy from scratch. Home(lab) users and pet machines at companies may do otherwise.

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