On 2004-04-05 at 19:34:27-04 William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Ralston said: > > > > Either a) go with Fedora Legacy or b) convince another third > > > party to support it (like some are doing for 7.3). > > > > Three words: embargoed security vulnerabilities. > > One word: Progeny Does Progeny know about embargoed security vulnerabilities? From their web site, I can find no evidence that they do. > > Red Hat has knowledge of what security vulnerabilities have been > > discovered but not yet made public. As a result, Red Hat has time > > to prepare relevant security errata and release them on the same > > day that the vulnerabilities are made public. > > I see no reason that members of the Fedora Legacy project couldn't become > members of the same trusted list. I suspect that this won't happen, but I wouldn't mind being proved wrong. > Consider the schedule for FC2 has been public for a while and Red > Hat isn't jumping to extend EOL. Ah, but remember, the schedule slipped. If the original schedule had held, FC2 would be out before RHL9 went EOL, and I wouldn't have made this request to begin with. James
