On 12/01/2017 10:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/02/17 01:03, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 12/01/2017 04:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 12/01/17 18:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 15:46 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>>> I should have also asked...why are you sticking to F25? It goes end-of- >>>>> life in about 6 months. You should have upgraded to at least F26. >>>> It will be a lot less than 6 months if history is any guide. N-2 >>>> usually goes EOL about a month after N is released. >>> From https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-25-end-life/ >>> >>> With the recent release of Fedora 27, Fedora 25 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) >>> status on December 12th, 2017. After December 12th, all packages in the Fedora 25 >>> repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, >>> no new packages will be added to the Fedora 25 collection. >> Yes, I know N - 2 goes EOL a month after the release of the new version. >> I was just suggesting gently that the OP, since he was building a new >> system, should have gone with at least F26. But there are things that >> people run that are dependent on older libraries and such and I get >> that, but they probably should run a longer-lived distro such as CentOS >> instead of our favorite, bleeding-edge and (at times) frustrating >> Fedora. > > OK. But you did write "It goes end-of-life in about 6 months", which is factually > incorrect and that is all POC and I were addressing. Yup. I mistyped. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The trouble with troubleshooting is that trouble sometimes - - shoots back. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
