On 12/1/25 2:34 AM, Mark Millard wrote:
On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:28, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:20, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:05, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
Dennis Clarke <dclarke_at_blastwave.org> wrote on
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An illustration of the schedule out to 17.0 is at:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/navigating-freebsds-new-quarterly-and-biennial-release-schedule.94183/
Now that is very handly :
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/gantt-freebsd.jpg
That could ( should ? ) be posted on the FreeBSD Supported Releases page
here : https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
Very handy to see that 15.x will have long legs into the end of 2029.
If accurate in how it shows overlaps, there would be a
period with all the following active:
14.6 15.3 15.4 16.0 16.1 main
(2028-Jun)
and a later period with:
14.6 15.4 15.5 16.0 16.1 main
(2028-Sep)
Yes, I see that. Very handly little chart. Perfect for the supported
releases page don't ya think?
Hopefully there will be more aarch64 port-package builder
machines active by then. With quarterly and latest
for all but main and with armv7 suspended, that would be
11 combinations to cover during those periods.
I have yet to see anything other than amd64 really be super stable and
reliable. I am sure there is a server somewhere based on aarch64 but I
just do not see the point. I would much rather see IBM POWER9 as a real
solid option but that requires 16M USD and a well paid team of engineers
for a year or two just to get a reasonable beta. Sadly.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
ps: I still have an ORACLE S7-2 server running Solaris 11.4 and Gentoo
because nothing else runs.
