Chris Snook wrote:
David wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> >From last I heard Wednesday, Jan 7 is EOL for F8. So be warned.
>
>
> In all honesty... EOL means End Of Line... Which means no more bugfix
> updates and no more security patches.
>
> It does *not* mean that fedora 8 will stop working on January 7th, 2009.
>
> ;-)
>
Do the F8 repos disappear on Jan 7th as well? I'd hate to be the admin
who doesn't notice until Jan. 8th, and needs some tool that's not
installed in order to migrate gracefully.
Aaron is correct. The official repos do not, in general, disappear. It,
I gather, depends on the admins of the mirror(s) what they keep or don't
keep. I know of mirrors that still have fedora packages going back to
Fedora Core 6 packages.
The 3rd party repos are a different animal completely. What they do, or
don't do, is entirely up to them.
My point was that the Fedora 8 system will not magically 'poof' and stop
working. But it would be for a user of Feodra 8, IMHO, a good time to
plan an upgrade.
Why? As I said not only are there no bug fixes, things that are broken
stay broken, there are no security fixes either. Meaning? Something
found in a 'newer version' now is more than likely to also be in the
'older version'. The 'older won't be fixed'. EOL.
--
David