Having multiple maintained versions isn't a mystery. (Although figuring out which one you want might be; I'm.... 80%... sure you want the highest numbered "RELEASE", not "STABLE", but not 100%).
Nobody asked, but a quarter century ago we used FreeBSD stable with current ports in a small business setting. A mostly unchanging base system but always the most recent user facing software (KDE iirc).
Linux distros only recently started doing this with the rise of flatpaks on top of immutable distros (or Debian stable).
The 14.x branch has an expected end of life (EOL) of November 2028:
* https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup
Oh, sweet mystery of FreeBSD versioning. 15.1-Release already came out.
(Yes. I know.)
Having multiple maintained versions isn't a mystery. (Although figuring out which one you want might be; I'm.... 80%... sure you want the highest numbered "RELEASE", not "STABLE", but not 100%).
Nobody asked, but a quarter century ago we used FreeBSD stable with current ports in a small business setting. A mostly unchanging base system but always the most recent user facing software (KDE iirc).
Linux distros only recently started doing this with the rise of flatpaks on top of immutable distros (or Debian stable).
For production, yes, use RELEASE.
Yeah, but which one?
Also, real businesses use -CURRENT, everybody knows that.
> Also, real businesses use -CURRENT, everybody knows that.
No, not really.
I have thousands of CDN servers that would disagree with you.
https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/OpenFest2023.pdf
Akshually-
Edit: I love HN. I'm obviously joking, but instant 4 downvotes
We're allowed to have fun, guys.
Present and accounted for ^^