On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:57:00 -0500, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
With disruptive changes that make it impossible to know if your hardware or applications will still work after an upgrade - and what is the alternative if they don't?
Don't upgrade and deal with security problems yourself. I ran Redhat 6.2 on on a network connected system for several years after support ended. For critical network facing services, I build them from up to date source. Other stuff stayed the way it was. Later I was stuck at FC5 for a while past EOL because of a kernel bug and kept an eye on security bug fixes to see if I needed to update any packages to fix a problem that would apply to me.