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

[Fedor Pikus]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> 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 if the choice is between useless and insecure, I'd take insecure.

Besides, the need to support Fedora 8 would not be for long: either
Fedora 10 is usable, then after few months the majority will move, or
Fedora 10 is not vastly better than Fedora 9, it would mean that there
is no supported usable version of Fedora after 8 is EOLed, then we
will have to switch to something else.


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