changes are needed, we need keep moving

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com>:

> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:55 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:31:11PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > http://www.netcore.fi/pekkas/buglist-rhl73.html, I see 95% of cruft that
> > > makes it difficult to focus on the 4 or 5% that I care about.  Do we
> > > really need to be releasing a mozilla for rh73?
> >
> > Yes, if we consider rh73 supported at all. There's important remote
> security
> > flaws in the older version.
> 
> I have rh73 installs that don't have mozilla installed.  What's the
> impact on me?

The impact on you is it helps to hold up the other updates you are interested
in.

> My question is this:  Do we waste time and distract from important
> packages by crowding the field with application level patches for
> allications that few (if anyone) is using.  Seriously, who is using RH73
> in desktop environments?  Do we have any stats on this?

No stats, but I am.  I just upgraded 2 7.3 servers, so now I stand roughly
a dozen 7.3 desktops left, and maybe 2 7.3 servers left.  So yes, some
of us still use the old systems as "desktop" systems, and not just servers.
By the end of the summer, I hope to have all my 7.x systems upgraded off it
though, so next year the answer will be different...

> -Jim P.

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Eric Rostetter