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FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE images are available

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Re: FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE images are available

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Post by mziulu »

microtonal wrote: post #9
mziulu wrote: post #7

Can I upgrade my (toy) VPS using freebsd-update? Or is the procedure different?

Which VPS provider do you use for FreeBSD. Does anyone have recommendations?

I use hetzner, I don't have a lot of necessities right now (I use it as git repo and as firefox sync server), but I'm very happy with it.

Re: FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE images are available

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Post by tgallant »

microtonal wrote: post #9
mziulu wrote: post #7

Can I upgrade my (toy) VPS using freebsd-update? Or is the procedure different?

Which VPS provider do you use for FreeBSD. Does anyone have recommendations?

rootbsd is the classic choice http://www.rootbsd.net/

there are also some freebsd images for AWS out there.

I also have freebsd vm's with crowncloud http://crowncloud.net/ and orangewebsite https://www.orangewebsite.com/vps.php

I've had a good experience with the last two. I chose them because they accept bitcoin (and orangewebsite is owned and operated in Iceland). If you go for some of the lesser known hosts, they will be flexible with what OS you want to use, especially if their platform is KVM based.

Re: FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE images are available

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Post by tiffanyh »

I really love FreeBSD but having 3 different PRODUCTION branches is getting insane (10.3, 9.3, 8.4).

I only run RELEASE.

When I run into production issues, the developers say they have fixed my issue in CURRENT but never release a point update to RELEASE ... means forces me to have to wait until the next MAJOR release for it to be fixed.

Feels like FreeBSD, even though I love all it does, is becoming more and more just for developers.

We need more minor point releases and less major releases.

The following link from 2 years ago is still very applicable today.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Janu...

Re: FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE images are available

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Post by emaste »

tiffanyh wrote: post #14

I really love FreeBSD but having 3 different PRODUCTION branches is getting insane (10.3, 9.3, 8.4). I only run RELEASE. When I run into production issues, the developers say they have fixed my issue in CURRENT but never release a point update to RELEASE ... means forces me to have to wait until the next MAJOR release for it to be fixed. Feels like FreeBSD, even though I love all it does, is becoming more and more ju…

I don't follow; fixes making it only into -CURRENT is certainly an issue, but slowing down the major release cadence will make it take even longer for those to reach you. Ensuring fixes make it into release branches is something we need to (and are working to) improve.

If you're able, we would very much appreciate community effort in helping to merge and test bugfixes to stable branches. Supporting the FreeBSD Foundation also helps to ensure there are resources to help make this a reality.

Any change to major release cadence, minor release cadence, branch lifetime, and access to new features implies a tradeoff against the others, as is clear in reading through the responses in the thread you link.

Re: FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE images are available

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Post by feld »

microtonal wrote: post #9
mziulu wrote: post #7

Can I upgrade my (toy) VPS using freebsd-update? Or is the procedure different?

Which VPS provider do you use for FreeBSD. Does anyone have recommendations?

Vultr works well, and I'm told Atlantic is good, too. Digital Ocean might have FreeBSD support.
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