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Doesn't run on Solaris and doesn't run on FreeBSD. An 'LTS' release means ... about 3 years.

No thanks...

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LTS releases are every 2 years and there is a major version release every year.

.NET 6 LTS

.NET 7

.NET 8 LTS

FreeBSD support has been in the works for a while:

- https://wiki.freebsd.org/.NET

- https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537

"Long Term Support (LTS)—These releases are supported for three years from their first release."

From my perspective, this is not "long term" ; but maybe others view it differently.

It is expected to have preliminary FreeBSD native build in .net 8. There are already PRs for that

How relevant is Solaris these days? Does it even make sense for them to add support when such a tiny fraction people would use it?

It is still used by some, but most importantly it shows a lack of portability. In the past the view that "all the world's a VAX" hampered portability, now we have "Everything is MacOS/Windows/Linux"... yet lots of properly designed software is easily ported to all kinds of platforms, even the BeOS-derived Haiku...

> most importantly it shows lack of portability

If it already runs on two Unix-likes I don't see the absence of Solaris support showing lack of portability. I actually think Solaris usage is the _more_ important piece: software is made for users and if those users don't exist (or there's such a small number as to make the opportunity cost of development not worth it) then what is the point?

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