Please: will discussion of FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT be welcome in the UnitedBSD area? With one condition:
- also subscribe to the official freebsd-current e-mail list.
Would an additional tag – FreeBSD CURRENT – complicate things?
Discussion of FreeBSD CURRENT
grahamperrin Would an additional tag – FreeBSD CURRENT – complicate things?
If I may ask, why would you need a new tag? Quite a few of us here are using NetBSD-current and, personally I've never felt the need to have a separated tag for current. As long as the topic clearly states which version you are using.
Thanks.
pin As long as the topic clearly states which version you are using.
That works for me.
I was thinking more of other users, who might want a distinction – because CURRENT is (compared to STABLE and RELEASE) not supported, and so on.
grahamperrin of all BSDs, FreeBSD has the lowest thread count here, due to FreeBSD Forums representing already the official site to ask for support. So, I doubt further splitting freebsd topics would be of any practical use. All things considered, we don't have -CURRENT tags for other BSDs, exactly because this is not an official support channel, and, on the other hand, there's more people here running -STABLE and -CURRENT branches than point releases.
grahamperrin because CURRENT is (compared to STABLE and RELEASE) not supported, and so on.
And that's why it's not like we're "supporting" this or that here. Run whatever you want, just specify it in the opening post.
It's my impression that this forum mainly attracts new users who are experimenting with BSD in their free time, for fun/learning/development purposes and are keen to break stuff or run experimental releases. This is in contrast with FreeBSD forums are full of admins running production-ready releases in a professional environment and that's why DutchDaemon and the other admins care so much about distinguishing between supported and unsupported branches.