On 08/29/2011 06:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be
>> something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that
>> Fedora along with other distros will have to move to follow GNOME 3.x
>> releases.
> One wonders how this will impact on the various long life distributions,
> where you're expected to keep using Linux version x(not changing).y(not
> changing).z(only part that changes), then? Because they're supposed to
> run for years, *with* security updates, but no large version changes.
Those distros all have maintainers who will backport fixes.
It's opensource -
Everybody has the liberty to take these $$$-OSes
source packages and to adopt them for ones needs, rsp. to submit these
packages back into Fedora.
Commercial enterprise distros don't depend on upstream
maintainers.
It's opensource - Nothing prevents forkers to take these
people's works
and harvest them for free forks.
Ralf