From: Tim Boyer 

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:24:18 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Randall Parker"
>
>wrote in message news:4592e2b2{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> For example, Fedora just dropped support for Fedora Core 4. Fedora Core 5
>> came out in March 2006 and Fedora Core 6 came out in October 2006.
>> Anything you installed before March 2006 isn't going to get fixes for
>> security patches if you were getting them from the Fedora project.
>
>This is one of the problems with software today, it's going to take a
>consumer law to force vendors to provide patches for 10 years like they have
>to provide parts for other consumer devices. That will also help to slow
>down this silly upgrade treadmill so that upgrades are really only for
>significant changes.
>
>Geo.

Yeah, but Fedora is _supposed_ to be bleeding edge.  It's the hobbyists'
OS; the one you play around with.  It's not supplied by any corporation.

It's what feeds Red Hat Enterprise.  RHE _is_ supported by Red Hat, and
they promise version support for seven years.  IMHO, seven years for OS
support isn't bad.

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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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