New distro question

[Paul Lussier]

Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> writes:

> 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.

Wow.  As glacial as Debian is to release things, I'm fairly certain I
can still get updates for ancient releases.  Couldn't you just
download the src.rpm and rebuild it for your system?

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Seeya,
Paul