----- "Bob McKay" <rimsnucse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi; there seems to be a structure problem in the fedora download
> website.
> .It's easy to get the current release - nicely designed (thanks)
> .It's hard, but not impossible, to find out-of-support releases of
> fedora (currently,
> this means up to F10). This requires following the links
> All Download Methods
> See old versions of Fedora
> archive
> from the main download page. I think this needs some fixing
> ("See old versions of Fedora" should also be available from the
> "View more Fedora options" page), but it's not to bad.
> .There is no link _at all_ that I can find to the supported-but-not-
> current
> releases (i.e. Fedora 11 and 12 at the moment). This is bad, because
> it means that if someone can't run F13 for some reason, they are
> likely
> to revert to (unsupported) F10. The only way I could find to get F11
> (which I need to check some software back-compatibility) was to
> find the F13 download link, then reconstruct what the F11 link must
> be. Fortunately, the links are very systematic, and it worked. But
> this
> really isn't the way it should be...
>
It is as it should be in my opinion. Unsupported releases get no security fixes as such should be considered insecure, dangerous and ethically irresponsible to use. In fact I disagree with them being available online at all.
-- Bob
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