On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:05:59AM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
: > Great..... after september 30 this year I won't have a single
: > supportable box.... Ummmm Gentlemen..... Are you going to give me new
: > laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage
: > to get software that would last as long as my hardware... well... let's
: > see 8 years on Win95 ... 6 on 98 ...... hmmmm me thinks the product
: > life cycle is toooooooo short.
: >
: Could someone clarify, please? Does this mean that there will be no security
: fixes after those dates? If those continue we would be no worse off than
: with any windows distro. After all, if it works for us now it will continue
: to do so. But without security updates it's a whole new ball game.
Or any other Linux distro. Or most software programs for that matter.
Personally, I'd rather see Mandrake do like everyone else and EOL a
product rather than keep dumping time and money into something that
get's them no return.
--Jerry
Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
...It's much more important than that!
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