A reminder of EOL for F8

[Aaron Gray]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net>wrote:

> Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 04:37:22 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> >> > ATRPMs for F8 will disappear almost immediately, the other repos leave
> >> > their last stuff around for a long time.....
> >>
> >> The CalcForge stuff is not going to stay up forever. People still
> running
> >> F8 should already have upgraded. I'm with Axel there, it doesn't make
> sense
> >> to keep repos up for distributions which do not get even critical
> security
> >> updates anymore. NOBODY should be running F8 post January 7.
> >
> > How about people for whom trying to install F9 or F10 fails?
>
> Did you file any bug reports against either version to enable folks to
> know that the install failed for you and to perhaps investigate a
> resolution?
>
> F9 has been out for almost a year already. There has been ample time to
> pursue bug reports and possible fixes/workarounds.
>
> If there is a bug preventing you from installing, get it filed.
> Otherwise, you have a decision to make here. Stay with F8 at your own
> peril or move to another Linux distribution that works for you.
>
> Even if these repos stay online, they are not providing updated versions
> of the packages for either bug or security fixes. You are stuck, one way
> or another.
>

Legacy SCSI and SCSI RAID controllers are not supported in F9 and F10 due to
HAL switchover, this is a known problem but no one seems to want to do
anything about it.

I looked at moving to CentOS but that crashes on loading the install kernel.

Aaron
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