GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

[Chris Kloiber]

On 08/29/2011 12:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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
There is nothing to backport, as those changes are taken from upstream, 
which no longer exists.

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Chris Kloiber