Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[David Boles]

Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-17-01 at 14:56 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>> I I don't want to join it for the sake of a month; I wish to go from 
>>>> three to five. I prefer not to rejig my yum configurations and/or 
>>>> up2date configurations, and I don't wish to go to four at this late 
>>>> state.
>>>
>>> Pretty simple. Continue getting updates from Fedora Legacy till Fedora 
>>> Core 5 is released.
>> Take your fingers out of you ears; I alread said that's not what I want 
>> to do.
>>
>>>> "responsibility to contribute."
>>>>
>>>> Jo and I don't contribute? You gotta be joking. We've both been 
>>>> helping out on these lists for years (with a minor break or two when 
>>>> RH left us).
>>>
>>> If you would like to get updates from Fedora Legacy project for a longer 
>>> duration you will have to contribute to that project specifically which 
>>> is what I meant earlier in context.
>>>
>> We don't want to get updates from FL. We'd like support for the outgoing 
>> release (FC3 now, FC4 next time) to remain as it was until the second 
>> successor is out and (somewhat) stabilised, so there are always two 
>> releases supported by FP.
>>
>>
>> Jo and I (and a lot of others) switched from RH back when RH announced 
>> its changed arrangements, and the commencement of the Fedora project 
>> because neither RH not FC provided what we wanted.
>>
>> We've dabbled in others including Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, 
>> Mandrake/Mandribble and some others.
>>
>> I currently run Debian/Woody, Debian/Sarge, Ubuntu, FC3, SUSE 10 and 
>> WBEL, so I know what the major alternatives are,
>>
>> We're asking just for a teensy extension to the support offered by FP. 
>> Instead of 13 months for FC3, maybe 14 (FC5+1 say, instead of FC5-1).
>>
> Hey John, there is no use beating a dead horse. Once a decision is made
> there is never any chance it will be reversed. I have finally accepted 
> this fact. And if I continue to use FC, I have resigned my self to 
> live with what I am given and just be happy if it works for me, when 
> it doesn't, I figure out how to live with what I can make work myself. 
> It has been made very clear that this is what is expected of FC users.
> When something breaks, send a bugzilla if there aren't already a bunch
> for the same problem, then figure out how to live with problem until 
> the package is no longer supported or possibly gets fixed. Remember
> we are the extended testing ground for the Enterprise products and 
> should be resigned to be treated as such.
> 
> By the way FC5t2 seems OK so far, but I will get Ubuntu just in case 
> the final release is as broken as FC4 was, so I have something stable.
> 
> 

You guys sound like the people that use Mandriva.  ;-)


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  David