On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:57:00 -0500,
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)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.