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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by phicoh on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:45AM (#37595392)
A difference is that the FreeBSD has to maintain two versions most of the time and sometimes three versions.

At the moment there are 12.x and 13.x. 14.x is in beta, so soon there will be three. But 12.x is expected to be dropped at the end of this year, so in 2024 it will be back to two versions.

As far as I can tell there are a lot more Linux kernels in LTS at the moment.

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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by throw0101b on Thursday September 21, 2023 @06:24AM (#37595655)
> But 12.x is expected to be dropped […]

Not "expected", rather than that being the policy: five years is ending.

* https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

December 2018:

* https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/

* https://www.freebsd.org/releases/

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