[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

[Karanbir Singh]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> When you say unsupported, do you mean no more security patches, or no
>>> more software updates?
>>
>>
>> Neither - Once FC3 moves into unsupported ( in another 15 days time ) 
>> there will be no more security fix's or software updates released via 
>> either Fedora Core or Fedora Extras. The project will move into Legacy 
>> mode - there some of the more critical updates are still back ported + 
>> released, but dont expect everything to be as well maintained as its 
>> done during the Life of a Fedora Core lifecycle. And, so far, there 
>> looks to be little or no Legacy mode support for Fedora Extras 3.
> 
> I don't mean to flip into Debian Zealot mode but how can you guys 
> possibly cope with this crap?

There is always CentOS :)

> FC3 has had a shelf life of what?  6 months?  On top of that you've 

14 months actually. Its been in circulation since Oct 2004.

> mostly had to use 3rd party packages to get the functionality you need. 

All those repo's provide the same functionality on FC4

> And now it's EOL and you can expect little, if any, official 
> retro-support and yet you keep downloading the FCn+1 install media.

nope. yum provides an update path from FC3 to FC4. Similar update path 
from FC4 to FC5 will be there too.

> Run that again:  1 computer, 1 installation, 5 years, security updates 
> during the entire time.
> 
> Now _that_ it what I call a reliable and trustable distribution.

Install CentOS4 today, and you will get updates till 2012.

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