Accessing old releases
Bob McKay
rimsnucse at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 03:41:27 UTC 2010
Hi; there seems to be a structure problem in the fedora download
website.
.It's easy to get the current release - nicely designed (thanks)
.It's hard, but not impossible, to find out-of-support releases of
fedora (currently,
this means up to F10). This requires following the links
All Download Methods
See old versions of Fedora
archive
from the main download page. I think this needs some fixing
("See old versions of Fedora" should also be available from the
"View more Fedora options" page), but it's not to bad.
.There is no link _at all_ that I can find to the supported-but-not-
current
releases (i.e. Fedora 11 and 12 at the moment). This is bad, because
it means that if someone can't run F13 for some reason, they are likely
to revert to (unsupported) F10. The only way I could find to get F11
(which I need to check some software back-compatibility) was to
find the F13 download link, then reconstruct what the F11 link must
be. Fortunately, the links are very systematic, and it worked. But this
really isn't the way it should be...
Thanks and Best Wishes
Bob McKay
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