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--- kernelmodulepackages [2023/09/14 13:12] – LucaPizzamiglio
+++ kernelmodulepackages [2023/10/18 21:04] (current) – Italicise both 'user space' and 'kernel', to help distinguish between the two. GrahamPerrin
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 ====== The Problem ======
-While %%FreeBSD%% provide ABI backward compatibility in user space, it doesn't provide Kernel ABI backward compatibility, a harder goal to achieve.
+While %%FreeBSD%% provides ABI-backward compatibility in //user space//, it does not provide //kernel// ABI-backward compatibility, a harder goal to achieve.
 Package repositories are currently provided for every major %%FreeBSD%% release.
-When a new minor %%FreeBSD%% version is released, the previous one is still maintained for 3 months, a time window where two versions of the same major %%FreeBSD%% version needs to be supported
+When a new minor %%FreeBSD%% version is released, maintenance of the previous minor version continues for three months — a time window in which two versions of the same major %%FreeBSD%% version need to be supported.
 During this period, the ports are built for the older minor version, because of the backward compatibility guarantee: newer %%FreeBSD%% version can still safely use packages built using the previous %%FreeBSD%% version.
 This assumption is not necessarily true for kernel module packages, because the backward compatibility is not guaranteed in kernel space.