Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy(a)nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
[...]
I fail to see why no update at all is a better policy than "we
update
what we can when we can, but we no longer officially support this vesion
of the distribution. Please understand that you are in uncharted
territory, we'll try to help as much as we can but you might be better by
simply upgrading to a newer distro."
Because upgrading gives you some assurance that the stuff you depend on
_will_ be maintained. "Perhaps glaring problems will be fixed. Probably
not. If your box gets broken into, tough luck" is _not_ what I would like
people to take home as "Linux experience". Because "But I got it from
Fedora's site! They even shipped an update last month!!" /makes/ Fedora (at
least morally) liable if it goes bad.
Besides, keeping old stuff around for ages /is/ a resource commitment. For
no good reason, even.
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