[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

[Martin A. Brooks]

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?

FC3 has had a shelf life of what?  6 months?  On top of that you've 
mostly had to use 3rd party packages to get the functionality you need. 
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.

Let me tell you about mute.

mute is a tiny computer I purchased 5 years ago.  It mostly handles my 
mail and a dozen or so other things like subbversion repositories.  I've 
installed it once, and it's been continously upgraded, mostly software, 
sometimes hardware, throughout that time.

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.

</zealotry>


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