Need advice

[Digimer]

On 17/04/14 09:59 AM, Steve Searle wrote:
> 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

Also, a lot of Fedora packages make it into EPEL, which can be installed 
on CentOS/RHEL. Even still, I agree with you that security and bug fixes 
trump features in servers.

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