On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 6:24 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Wed Feb 05, 2003 at 01:03:42AM -0800, 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. > > Don't even begin comparing us to Microsoft. You should know better. > How much cash does Microsoft have in reserve? How much does > MandrakeSoft?
There has to be a limit as to what is affordable in the way of support. When it comes down to it, only security is an issue to someone continuing to use an older distro if they choose to do so. If maintaining security updates is too difficult, might it be feasible to maintain a page of link to security updates that those running crucial servers could use? Since those users are most likely to compile their own, it sounds feasible. What do you think? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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