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

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:45:48PM -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> 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. :/
> >
> 
> 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.

The Fedora EOL is always one (or even two now) months after the
release of the next to next Fedora release in order to allow people to
skip a release in between and have a windows to upgrade.

But if F9 didn't work for you I doubt F10 will be much better. F9 now
is a completely different entity than it was 6 months ago and many
issues have been fixed. What issue remain are most likely still there
in F10 and the only way to have it fixed is to report it to
bugzilla.redhat.com.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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