Why Is Everyone Stuck on FreeBSD 13?

This article is possibly a bit of a shameless plug from Klara but does look like a good offering. And the challenges are certainly not overstated.

In many ways, people often want to avoid Linux precisely because of the constant upgrade churn that seems to be plaguing it. A professional service to keep your current infrastructure safe whilst allowing it to remain consistent is really valuable. Especially as the industry as a whole seem to be reducing their EOL guarantees.
 
kpedersen said:
This article is possibly a bit of a shameless plug from Klara but does look like a good offering.
Click to expand...
I agree with this, but this sentence fromt he article keeps jumping out at me:

LTS is a bridge, not a destination.

I guess the devil is in the details, but how long will Klara do the LTS thing for 13? Then for 14, 15?

But yes, kudos/good job/thank you to Klara for doing this. It does not affect my 2 system home setup but I can see how it is needed.
 
Its also resolves one of the key Cyber Essentials certification concerns. In-house expertise are so difficult to prove when maintaining your own unsupported version of an OS. Delegating this support to a vendor is much more feasible to defend.
 
Who is everyone ?

I can't find any figures in the article; what is FreeBSD's market share? Within that share, what are the figures for versions 13, 14, and 15 (16 ?) ?
 
doul said:
Who is everyone ?

I can't find any figures in the article; what is FreeBSD's market share? Within that share, what are the figures for versions 13, 14, and 15 (16 ?) ?
Click to expand...

Nobody knows. There's no form of install tracking, much less contiguous use tracking.

I can easily believe that the openssl issue alone keeps quite a few people on 13.x.
 
cracauer@ said:
13 was a good release.
Click to expand...
I upgraded from 12 to 13, ended with a black screen and updated immediately to 14.

I have no other experience with 13 for saying it was a good release.

For me it is upgrading FreeBSD an horrible experience, takes a lot of time and the probability of having troubles is big.
 
It's kind of funny how different this is for different people.
For me, 11.x was a good release, 12.x was bad (lots of hw-related trouble), 13.x was good, 14.x was more trouble again (with hw and drivers). For 15.x it is too early to tell.

The upgrade itself is no big deal for me, I just got to read the release notes, the errata and other documents. And it helps to wait a few days too, having someone else being the guinea pig.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top