Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd May 2007 18:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Several months ago, the Fedora Board (in consultation with Red Hat Engineering) decided to increase the length of time that Fedora releases are supported, in terms of updates. This decision was retroactively applied to Fedora Core 5, allowing it to remain a fully maintained release for several months longer than it would have under the old policy. Fedora Core 5 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday June 29th, 2007."
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2005-07-08
Hmm, Fedora 5 was released on March 20, 2006. It will be EOF'ed after 14 months of existence. That's NOT ok.
Personnaly, I don't care: I always install the newest release when it comes out. However, I know alot of people who HATE reinstalling/upgrading because they have no time to do it and they simply cannot take the chance to break their system.
I know someone who still use a pre-Sarge version of Debian because moving to a newer version of Linux/GCC/etc would break half of his setup. Hopefully, he's using Debian.
I clearly understand that maintening old versions is hard and boring but in the 'nix world, there's no hurry to upgrade. After all, most software we use were written 20 years ago so why do we need to upgrade? New version of Gnome/KDE? Not really useful when all you need is xterm/emacs/vim/whatever ;-)