[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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