Vote to extend F14 security updates

[Richard Heck]

On 09/05/2011 02:55 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 08:18 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>>> On 09/02/2011 04:25 AM, Peter G. wrote:
>>>> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because
>>>>> of gnome3.
>>>> Boo hoo.
>>>>
>>> He is not alone
>> I agree, there are a lot of us that would like to extend F14.  The
>> hardware requirements for F15 make a lot of equipment unusable; for sure
>> these machines may be obsolete anyway, but one of the nice things about
>> Fedora was that it would function on this equipment which meant a
>> desktop could be put together very cheaply and used effectively with
>> great software.
>>
>> I understand that transitions related to enhancements should occur, and
>> in fact are required to occur.  What Fedora has done in this area is
>> great!!!! However, some of us would sill like F14 to last another couple
>> years :)
>
> Well let's be realistic. An extra 6 months of *only* security updates
> would be super. Time enough for F17.
>
> gnome3 is an issue for ME because I introduced Linux to my school
> populace 6 years ago. Students and staff have associated gnome2 with
> Linux. They slowly got used to it. Now if I put gnome3 in front of
> them, I can just imagine all the calls I'm going to get. "How do you
> do this? It's different. What happened? Why can't I _____? ....."
>
It seems to me that this is really the kind of environment in which one
should be using CentOS, or some other distro that values stability.
Fedora just isn't that kind of distro. I don't use it on my servers,
because I want them to keep doing what they do with minimal intervention
from me.

Richard