GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 16:38:58 UTC 2011


On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be
>> something you need to keep in mind.   This is part of the reason that
>> Fedora along with other distros will have to move to follow GNOME 3.x
>> releases.
> One wonders how this will impact on the various long life distributions,
> where you're expected to keep using Linux version x(not changing).y(not
> changing).z(only part that changes), then?  Because they're supposed to
> run for years, *with* security updates, but no large version changes.

Those distros all have maintainers who will backport fixes.   
Commercial enterprise distros don't depend on upstream maintainers.   
That's part of the value of paying them. 

Rahul


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