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> Also, real businesses use -CURRENT, everybody knows that. No, not really.

• drewg123 8d ago
  I have thousands of CDN servers that would disagree with you. https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/OpenFest2023.pdf https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/OpenFest2023.pdf
  • BoredomIsFun 8d ago
    Netflix is just a single point. I'd never run current in production.
    • icedchai 8d ago
      It may be more common than you think. The latest version of pfSense CE is on 16.0-CURRENT.
      • CursedSilicon 8d ago
        PFsense gleefully ships vulnerable code to their own customers. They are an even worse data point https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-13s-close-call/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
  • cperciva 8d ago
    -CURRENT is great for cattle. For pets, I recommend -RELEASE.
  • crest 7d ago
    A CDN *cache* server is a special case. Netflix cache appliances can accept the risk of running FreeBSD -CURRENT and upgrading half their fleet to the latest snapshot every ~2 weeks and we thank them for battle testing FreeBSD's active development branch in production. It really helps to reveal regressions (both correctness and performance) early in the subsystems and drivers that matter to their usecase. Most users will neither be willing nor able to accept the trade-offs that Netflix chose.