reviving Fedora Legacy

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Oct 13 08:08:57 UTC 2008


Robert Locke <lists <at> ralii.com> writes:
> And then have everyone complaining when the "upgrade" to the new version
> introduced an incompatibility.  Take a look at the recent complaining as
> KDE moved forward.  Why not just upgrade to the next Fedora release
> then?  If you want security/stability, it requires backporting....

Obviously we wouldn't upgrade F8 to KDE 4!

If anything, we'd upgrade it to newer 3.5.x releases, but even that is not 
necessary because KDE is among the few upstream projects who publish backported 
security patches for older releases, so we do not have to backport anything on 
our own, just apply the security fixes from KDE. We could stay on 3.5.10 for 
years, and that also works for branches like 4.0, 4.1 or 4.2 which aren't as 
long-lived as 3.5.

         Kevin Kofler




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