New distro question

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 10:03 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >   Speaking as a professional MIS weenie, I can say that the main thing
> > that annoys about Fedora is their release cycle.  Having to do a major
> > upgrade to my OS every year, or living without security updates, isn't
> > a choice I relish.
> 
> Can't that be avoided by only updating those thing installed that have
> available updates?  Why would you install something unnecessarilly, or
> upgrade something you don't use/need ?  Especially on any system
> requiring security?

Once a fedora release goes end-of-life, there are no more updates,
period. For example, Fedora Core 6 went end-of-life a few months ago,
and hasn't had a security update of any sort released since. So you have
to upgrade the system to the next Fedora release (or the one after) to
keep getting any sort of updates at all.


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Jarod Wilson
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