Fedora EOL Security Updates

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Feb 8 00:12:24 UTC 2009


Gustavo Alves wrote:
> This is not about a long term support, but a longer one. In my opinion, 18
> months cycle is too short. One or two versions more will be enough to a
> comfortable upgrade plan.

The length of support for a Fedora release is actually around 13 months, not
18.

> The majority of bugs from a version are untouched. Since F9 elisa doesn't
> work. Since EVER we have that annoying rpm freeze. If you press CANCEL on
> NTP connection at "firstboot", it will be run again on restart. It's so
> many bugs uncorrected that I even care anymore to lost my time puting on
> bugzilla.

But the project proposed in this thread is *only* for security updates, in
particular any other bugs will *not* be fixed under this proposal. So it
doesn't really change anything there.

        Kevin Kofler




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