Build Nvidia driver for Fedora 9, AMD?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue May 20 07:47:08 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:06:20 -0700,
  Michael Hannon <jm_hannon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I understand correctly, security updates are available only for the two most-recent versions of Fedora.  In that case, Fedora 7 and earlier are no longer supported.  Is that correct?

F7 will go out of support within a month. F8 will be supported for
approximately another 6 or 7 months.

> We kickstart all of our Fedora systems so as to minimize the disruption of the rapid turnover of the software, but now we have to choose between securing the systems and having the systems fully functional for our end users.  Not a happy situation.
> 
> Is there any chance that xorg 1.5 (or whatever the non-beta version is) will be available as an update to Fedora 9 once it becomes available?

Can't you use F8 for a while and then go to F9 when the drivers you need
are available?




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