Anne Wilson wrote: > You miss the point, Kevin. Of course you can upgrade on older systems > - if you want to. I've done it myself. I have two boxes, though, that > run FC4 and for several reasons I do not want to upgrade them. It's > just 10 months since FC4 was installed on both of them. I don't need > the latest and greatest on either of them, but I do want security > updates, and I'm not going to get them. Frankly, Legacy was the > biggest reason I had for coming to Fedora. I understand about the lack > of manpower in volunteer situations, but I'm less than happy. If I > have to install afresh to get a secure system I'll probably change to > CentOS rather than install FC6 on those boxes. For what it's worth, there is a current official proposal that security support should be extended to about thirteen months -- support for installing one release, missing the next completely, and then when the release *two* after you'd originally installed came out, you'd have a month to upgrade. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess (at the bottom in bold) and https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-December/msg00099.html and the following thread. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | The betting public are on average complete idiots (see aprilcottage.co.uk | also lotteries for examples) and are uniformly | incompetent at predicting horse racing results. So are | bookies, but they know simple mathematics too, you see. | -- Dan Holdsworth
