My knowlege of FreeBSD is limited, but from what I understand this still does not resolve the issue.<p>While they have seperated the base OS, they have not resolve the issues of applications that can be mission critical, thus warrant to be frozen like the base os is.  Things like apache, mysql, etc etc etc.<p>If you treat them like user apps then they will be updated when maybe I did not want them to be, but if you treat them like base os then you have the problem the author outlines.<p>Fruther my understanding is the ports system only supports the lastest version of FreeBSD, meaning if you want to use ports you always have to update to the latest version when released.<p>I have CentOS and RHEL Servers running version 5, if it were FreeBSD I would not be able to use this 2 release old version of FreeBSD and ports, I would have to upgrade.