Gilboa Davara wrote: > This being I suspect that most users will play the waiting game before > making a decision. They'll wait for the FC5 release and check how it > behaves before making a decision, which in turn, will leave them > vulnerable to security exploits. This is exactly what the Fedora Legacy project is for. They provide security and major bugfix to older Fedora Core releases. > 2. It has been suggested (in the fedora-list discussion) that the last > official FC4 update will be a legacy yum configuration rpm that will > ease/automate the transition to legacy. This sounds like a great idea to > me. Is it possible? I fully agree. Maybe this could be done with something such as an update to fedora-release which configures (among others) Yum to use the Fedora Legacy repositories and whatnot. I'm presuming that keeping two distros patched and stable is a lot of work for the hackers at Red Hat, much less keeping a development tree going for the next release. Also, (not to flame or taunt anyone for their awesome hard work) whether one may like it or not, I believe that Fedora is meant to be a somewhat fast-paced distribution. If a user wants a slower release cycle and perhaps older packaging, then maybe he or she is better suited for something like RHEL (or its no-cost alternative CentOS). -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7
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