Hello Jaromil, Le Ven 19 Jan 2018 09:41:10, [email protected] a écrit : > On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Therese Godefroy via RT wrote: > > > Besides, it's very easy to do: when a distro becomes "dangerously" > > unmaintained (meaning no security updates, unless it is never used > > on the net), just comment out the corresponding entry in > > /distros/free-distros.html and /help/gnu-bucks.html (+ whatever page > > I don't know about). When the distro is active again, restore the > > entry. > > please note that the bounty we all accepted is regarding the fact > distros are 100% free. But I do agree with the other suggestion of > listing known bugs, just like should be done in any software. [...]
Please note that, when I wrote this, I wasn't thinking ot Dyne:bolic. An earlier post on gnu-linux-libre [0] made clear that the only distro which currently may be said to be "dangerously" unmaintained is BLAG. Being free is a plus, but I don't think it's a good idea to recommend a distro that doesn't provide up-to-date security patches. What I most object to is advertising an outdated distro which isn't meant to be used offline to people who know nothing about GNU/Linux distros, let alone bug lists. One of these persons might push the prominent button on the home page of gnu.org, reach free-distros.html, install the first distro on the list (which happens to be BLAG), and find out the hard way that the browser still contains a bad security flaw which got patched in later versions. Do you think it will help the cause of free software? Fortunately, this is just a bad dream. This person will be unable to install BLAG because the repo can't be reached anymore. But this won't help the cause of FS either. That said, I am very grateful to people like you who maintain fully free distros. Best regards, Thérèse [0] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2018-01/msg00004.html
