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> ... and all that with having about only 1/10 of the Linux people count (rough estimate).

It's easy to offer a long LTS release cadence when your project is stagnant.

It's pretty active, actually. Look at the release notes for FreeBSD major versions. Some folks think the release engineering team is too active and that major versions should be supported for more than ~5 years.

If this [1] is stagnant then I do not know what is not ...

[1] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/

That's all of FreeBSD including userspace, not just the kernel. In Linux land you see more than that level of activity in just the kernel:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

I didn't say FreeBSD was abandonware, its kernel development has just been relatively stagnant for decades vs. Linux. Which shouldn't come as particularly surprising considering how much more adoption and investment there's been surrounding Linux over that time period.

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