Need advice

[Steve Searle]

Around 02:53pm on Thursday, April 17, 2014 (UK time), Tim wrote:

> Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2014, Roger sent:
> > What would one have to look out for if one does keep an EOL Fedora for
> > a number of years? 
> 
> You wouldn't be able to install new applications on it.  e.g. If, years
> later, someone develops something that sounds interesting to you, it
> will depend on whatever was currently available, which you wouldn't
> have.  You may be able to compile it from source, though that might be a
> pain, or perhaps not possible - because you'd need to compile all the
> system stuff, not just the application.

I would think the lack of any security updates would be a more serious
problem than this.

Steve

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