Am 29.08.2011 20:23, schrieb Chris Kloiber: > On 08/29/2011 12:38 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. >> Commercial enterprise distros don't depend on upstream maintainers. >> That's part of the value of paying them. >> >> Rahul > There is nothing to backport, as those changes are taken from upstream, > which no longer exists. maybe fedora should switch to KDE as primary desktop since GNOME2 was bad enough and GNOME3 is losing even users who loved GNOME2 for whatever reason a desktop which NEEDS 3D-Support is a epic fail
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