reviving Fedora Legacy

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Oct 14 12:57:30 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:42 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > > * Patrice Dumas [13/10/2008 13:23] :
> > > >
> > > > Why are you telling about half baked updates? Who will do that? Fedora
> > > 
> > > They're half-baked in the sense that there's less commitement
> > > post-EOL than pre-EOL.
> 
> > But post-EOL there is currently no commitment and there won't be any
> > promise on it. Some is better than not at all.
> 
> "Might someday get looked at and fixed, if somebody cares" is definitely
> much worse than "No more fixes, do upgrade".

Some users will do so, but others will react as Wikipedia did: Quit
using Fedora and switch to a different distro or OS.

Hell, folks, I have seen people switching to MinGW, because of this.
They told me, "MinGW" better suites their needs because it offers
support for "this weird GNU-stuff" on "the industry-standard OS".





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