alt Hacker NewsWhile I also use -current, I don't think this is good advice to the kinds of people who don't know if they should be running 14.4 or 15.0. There are caveats to running -current (for example, you need to disable the built-in debugging stuff on -current to get decent performance but the debugging stuff is already disabled on actual releases), so I think for new people it's best to recommend they use the latest release (15.0) and they can discover -current when they are more familiar with FreeBSD.
"I don't think this is good advice to the kinds of people who don't know if they should be running 14.4 or 15.0."
You don't need to wonder about this because FreeBSD has an official, documented position on this topic[1]:
"... include work in progress, experimental changes and transitional mechanisms that may or may not be present in the next official release ..."
"... whether or not FreeBSD-CURRENT sources bring disaster or greatly desired functionality can literally be a matter of which part of any given 24 hour period you grabbed them in!"
"(is not) In any way ``officially supported'' by us."
[1] https://docs-archive.freebsd.org/doc/4.4-RELEASE/usr/share/d...