Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Jan 2007 21:58 UTC
Volunteers are calling it quits on a project called Fedora Legacy to provide long-term support for Red Hat's hobbyist-oriented Fedora version of Linux. "The Fedora Legacy project is in the process of shutting down," said project organizers Jesse Keating and David Eisenstein in a Fedora Legacy mailing list posting Friday. The organizers didn't provide a specific reason for the decision, but a lack of contributions from outside programmers contributed, Keating said in a separate mailing list posting.
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2005-07-06
If they don't have enough people that keeps it up to date and bugs remains unpatched, fedora legacy would just create false sense of security.
If you as a user can't make yum update and be fairly sure that recent security holes have been fixed, you better handle your upgrades yourselfs.
This is often simpler than you would think, as large parts of old SRPM .spec files can be reused to a large extent. E.g. change the version to the version of the latest upstream tarball, review the patches that fails.
In most cases this is things that allready have been included in the upstream version, so it is safe to remove the patch.
Doing this could be a way to keep old versions alive, e.g. if you have old hardware, but in most cases it would be best to just use yum to upgrade to the latest versions. This should not more dangerous than installing a servicepack in windows, but to be on the safe side, make sure you have a good backup before you do it.