Poll: what's the oldest FreeBSD release that you still use in production?

What is the oldest FreeBSD release that you still use in production?

  • 15

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • 14

    Votes: 9 36.0%

  • 13

    Votes: 7 28.0%

  • 12

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • 11

    Votes: 3 12.0%

  • 10

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • Even older (describe in the comments)

    Votes: 3 12.0%
  • Total voters
    25
A

asomers

Developer
At this point, FreeBSD 13.4 is the oldest officially supported release. But we've probably all kept a server online for a year or two after it was officially unsupported. Some of us without even rebooting it. Often it's for good reasons, and it isn't even necessarily insecure, as long as we backport the patches ourselves. So what's the oldest release that you're still using? Personal machines count, as long as they're in-use and not merely gathering dust on a shelf. Embedded systems, ala Playstation, don't count, unless you actually have both the ability and responsibility to maintain that OS.
 
So any machine that I have and occasionally use counts? Like the one I use to read and write floppy disks from time to time.
 
Maybe if I shame myself in this way I'll be finally motivated to replace it:
Code: 
$ uname -a
FreeBSD shame.mydomain.tld 7.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p1 #2: Thu May 26 04:05:06 UTC 2011     jose@shame.mydomain.tld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
$ uptime
 9:12PM  up 950 days,  8:57, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
 
% dmesg
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p18 #0: Tue Apr 11 10:31:00 UTC 2017
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 240 Processor (2812.86-MHz K8-class CPU)
real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
It was installed 10 years ago as a router/fileserver for a small office (~15 windows PCs) and it works with minimal supervision for years.
Its services are: ipfw, natd, gmirror, ufs snapshots, samba, nfsd, mpd5, mail relay, rsync(d) for local and remote backups, APC Smart UPS with an apcupsd.
All services restricted to local network and a few whitelisted external networks.
I have replaced mainboard, PSU and failed HDD on this machine at least once.

Also, I have one running jail "FreeBSD 8.3" running on "10.3-RELEASE x86" @KVM.
 
Wow, those are some pretty old systems. A few 30% of respondents have installations that are officially EoL. im Jose do you ever try to update ports on those very old servers?
 
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