Accessing old releases

[Bob McKay]

Hi; there seems to be a structure problem in the fedora download  
website.
.It's easy to get the current release - nicely designed (thanks)
.It's hard, but not impossible, to find out-of-support releases of  
fedora (currently,
	this means up to F10). This requires following the links
		All Download Methods
		See old versions of Fedora
		archive
	from the main download page. I think this needs some fixing
	("See old versions of Fedora" should also be available from the
	"View more Fedora options" page), but it's not to bad.
.There is no link _at all_ that I can find to the supported-but-not- 
current
	releases (i.e. Fedora 11 and 12 at the moment). This is bad, because
	it means that if someone can't run F13 for some reason, they are likely
	to revert to (unsupported) F10. The only way I could find to get F11
	(which I need to check some software back-compatibility) was to
	find the F13 download link, then reconstruct what the F11 link must
	be. Fortunately, the links are very systematic, and it worked. But this
	really isn't the way it should be...

	Thanks and Best Wishes
	Bob McKay

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[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

----- "Bob McKay" <rimsnucse(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi; there seems to be a structure problem in the fedora download  
>  website.
>  .It's easy to get the current release - nicely designed (thanks)
>  .It's hard, but not impossible, to find out-of-support releases of  
>  fedora (currently,
>  	this means up to F10). This requires following the links
>  		All Download Methods
>  		See old versions of Fedora
>  		archive
>  	from the main download page. I think this needs some fixing
>  	("See old versions of Fedora" should also be available from the
>  	"View more Fedora options" page), but it's not to bad.
>  .There is no link _at all_ that I can find to the supported-but-not- 
>  current
>  	releases (i.e. Fedora 11 and 12 at the moment). This is bad, because
>  	it means that if someone can't run F13 for some reason, they are
>  likely
>  	to revert to (unsupported) F10. The only way I could find to get F11
>  	(which I need to check some software back-compatibility) was to
>  	find the F13 download link, then reconstruct what the F11 link must
>  	be. Fortunately, the links are very systematic, and it worked. But
>  this
>  	really isn't the way it should be...
>   
It is as it should be in my opinion. Unsupported releases get no security fixes as such
should be considered insecure, dangerous and ethically irresponsible to use. In fact I
disagree with them being available online at all.

-- Bob

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[Sijis Aviles]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Bob McKay <rimsnucse(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi; there seems to be a structure problem in the fedora download
>  website.
>  .It's easy to get the current release - nicely designed (thanks)
>  .It's hard, but not impossible, to find out-of-support releases of
>  fedora (currently,
>         this means up to F10). This requires following the links
>                 All Download Methods
>                 See old versions of Fedora
>                 archive
>         from the main download page. I think this needs some fixing
>         ("See old versions of Fedora" should also be available from the
>         "View more Fedora options" page), but it's not to bad.
>  .There is no link _at all_ that I can find to the supported-but-not-
>  current
>         releases (i.e. Fedora 11 and 12 at the moment). 
Bob,

I completely understand where you are coming from. Its definitely not
our intent to make it difficult to get to supported non-current
release. The best location to get them right now is at the mirrors
website[1]. We will look at options on how to make these release more
accessible for other individuals.

Thanks for your feedback,

Sijis

[1] - http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/