On 28 March 2013 14:29, Michael Wayne <freebs...@wayne47.com> wrote: > I'm NOT trying to start a flame war here. I'm trying to find a > viable solution to a very frustrating, real problem. > > It's clear that FreeBSD has absolutely no interest in maintaining > an extended maintainence release version of the O/S. The high > resource commitment required to keep up with the current incessant > FreeBSD release process is beyond quite a number of people. I'm at > the point of admitting that FreeBSD is simply too much work for us > to continue to use.
Well, the open source project as a whole doesn't have the resources to do this. I think the general consensus is "it'd be nice if a commercial company came up and do this." > So, I'm wondering if anyone reading the list is aware of a viable > alternative. I'm seeking a BSD-based O/S that is designed to be > installed in a server environment and not ever get any feature > upgrades or require any noticable additional resources, only security > fixes for the O/S and ports. I suggest asking ixSystems and looking at PC-BSD. There have been mumblings about a commerically supported PC-BSD distribution. Which is FreeBSD plus their testing and management and install stuff, along with what I hope is some commercial support if you need it. > While this concept is clearly in total opposition to the philosophy > of the FreeBSD team, I'm hoping that some other, smaller project > might exist to fill this need. It's actually in line with our philosophy. If people are willing to pay for it, then grab a company to do it. :) Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
