Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: [...] > > What earthly reason would you have to run some old code set, with not > > even close to guaranteed updates, let alone timely ones, with little > > man power behind it, and the opportunity to be ignored by most package > > owners? > Here's the reason: you have a new computer with hardware supported in > fedora but not the current RHEL/Centos release - Lack of care when buying a machine can't be cured by the distribution. > or you need some > software feature provided in the newer fedora apps so you install > fedora. I was perfectly happy with RH 6.2, and most of what I do now I could do there, so this can't really be an issue. > A year passes and you've installed an assortment of > additional apps and perhaps written some of your own. Upgrade to next Fedora. Gets easier each time around. A bit of foresight when installing originally helps much here. > Everything you > need is working nicely, but now your security updates end. Your 'some > old code set' description doesn't quite match what people care about - > they want a code set that meets certain needs and once that is > installed and working they don't care if a prettier new version with > new bugs happens to be available. But people will be installing that > on new computers or new situations where they need a feature. If they care for "working indefinitely" they aren't into "mint-fresh hardware" nor into "bleeding-edge software". This scenario isn't at all realistic. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
