[ATrpms-users] Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky atrpms at kosowsky.org
Sun Nov 2 06:23:01 CET 2008


Axel Thimm wrote at about 06:53:01 +0200 on Sunday, November 2, 2008:
 > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:30:29PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > Additionally, as Linux and Fedora continue to mature, I find less and
 > > less reason to upgrade every 6 months.
 > 
 > The problem is that F8 will reach EOL meaning that there will be no
 > more security updates. Just in October there were 28 such updates
 > including a kernel security update. Half a year after the EOL date you
 > will have 180 security flaws and probably 6 kernel releated ones. :/
 > -- 
 > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

True - but for those of us running home systems, we may be willing to
take the risk... at least until we find the time to upgrade...

I don't really relish spending multiple hours updating all my
customizations ;)



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