Re:Bhyve – BSD Hypervisor
by jrapdx3 on Saturday August 30, 2014 @05:18AM
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As others have commented, the effective EOL is not really that short. FBSD 10.0 was released Jan 2014, so 10.0 will be supported for a year or so. Updating to 10.1 (when it is finalized in Q4) will very likely be painless, no incompatibilities, so as a practical matter, EOL is extended at least another year or so.
This has been the history of FBSD since my exposure to 4.x back in 2000. A more recent example, FBSD 8.0 was announced Nov 2009. And now, nearly 5 years later, FBSD 8.4 is still a supported version.
Sure, technically each minor version of 8.x reached EOL after a year. But since keeping an 8.x installation up-to-date has been so seamless, it achieves an EOL >=5 years from introduction.
Anyway, how I see it based on real-world experience.
This has been the history of FBSD since my exposure to 4.x back in 2000. A more recent example, FBSD 8.0 was announced Nov 2009. And now, nearly 5 years later, FBSD 8.4 is still a supported version.
Sure, technically each minor version of 8.x reached EOL after a year. But since keeping an 8.x installation up-to-date has been so seamless, it achieves an EOL >=5 years from introduction.
Anyway, how I see it based on real-world experience.