[justin66]

> At least that is how i think of it. Am I missing something? What isn't obvious about it?

I think the number of times I've witnessed discussions over the decades regarding "which version of FreeBSD should I use?" numbers in the hundreds.

[kqr]

As far as I understand it, that is nothing more than an urban legend based on the fact that 5.0 was a terrible, rushed release and not meant for production (it was also marked as such). That mistake has not been repeated since, to my knowledge.

[takeda]

The official answer to this is to use latest stable version for any new server. That means 11.1 right now.

10.4 is intended for individuals who are still running 10.x