Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Actually, since this is all "noarch" stuff which doesn't depend on
> release, that's irrelevant, other than his needed to download it by
> hand.
I think it is quite relevant, especially for someone looking for
wireless firmware. He'd be exposing a system that has not had any
security updates for over a year wirelessly. That's not a wise idea
at all, and one that I think should be discouraged on this list.
> Since some hardware vendors haven't moved beyond FC6, a lot of
> people need to stay with it. Ubuntu has a better idea here, to make
> a version every once in a while a LTS version, to encourage vendors
> to support it.
The effort to support such a release is quite high. I rather like
Todd Denniston's suggestion that RHEL/CentOS releases are comparable
to Ubuntu's LTS releases in many ways.
But for better or worse, Fedora releases are only supported for ~13
months. And I think it's a disservice to encourage anyone to run them
on a network after they've been EOL'd. (I say this as someone that
has some ancient RHL servers in production still. But I assume all
the risks and effort required to keep them properly updated.)
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