reviving Fedora Legacy

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Oct 13 22:06:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:14:42PM +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> The expectations people will undoubtedly have from this sort of extended
> release maintenance will be completely out of line with what's provided.
> How can you provide security updates for some of a distribution and have
> it be meaningful?  What does it matter if you patch a problem in a user
> application and not those in the kernel?  And how do you reconcile that
> disparity with the expectations of the user of this supposedly
> maintained branch, who thinks that somehow they're doing better
> security-wise than if they move to a platform actively maintained by a
> community, be it a current Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS?

I cannot do anything if people don't read the pages explaining what the
project offers. Did I said something about 'doing better
security-wise than if they move to a platform actively maintained by a
community, be it a current Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS'. No.

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Pat




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