[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

[Jack Bertram]

* Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> [051208 21:04]:
> 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?

I have to say that I'm sitting here feeling rather pissed off.

> 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.

Hmmm.

> 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.

Well, the reason I moved away from Debian was that it didn't update
often enough - for a server, it's fine but for a desktop where I want to
play with cool stuff as well as the basics, it's a real pain.

j
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