On 17/04/14 09:59 AM, Steve Searle wrote:
Around 02:53pm on Thursday, April 17, 2014 (UK time), Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2014, Roger sent:
What would one have to look out for if one does keep an EOL Fedora for
a number of years?
You wouldn't be able to install new applications on it. e.g. If, years
later, someone develops something that sounds interesting to you, it
will depend on whatever was currently available, which you wouldn't
have. You may be able to compile it from source, though that might be a
pain, or perhaps not possible - because you'd need to compile all the
system stuff, not just the application.
I would think the lack of any security updates would be a more serious
problem than this.
Steve
Also, a lot of Fedora packages make it into EPEL, which can be installed
on CentOS/RHEL. Even still, I agree with you that security and bug fixes
trump features in servers.
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