On 08/29/2011 06:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be >>> something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that >>> Fedora along with other distros will have to move to follow GNOME 3.x >>> releases. >> One wonders how this will impact on the various long life distributions, >> where you're expected to keep using Linux version x(not changing).y(not >> changing).z(only part that changes), then? Because they're supposed to >> run for years, *with* security updates, but no large version changes. > > Those distros all have maintainers who will backport fixes. It's opensource - Everybody has the liberty to take these $$$-OSes source packages and to adopt them for ones needs, rsp. to submit these packages back into Fedora. > Commercial enterprise distros don't depend on upstream maintainers. It's opensource - Nothing prevents forkers to take these people's works and harvest them for free forks. Ralf -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
