Hello Oron. Thanks for your lengthy answer. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find what I was looking for.
What I tried to figure out was whether there's something stupid about just downloading the lastest kernel regardless of rpm packages, compile and install it. Like in the good old times when I knew what happened on my computer. Fedora's life cycle might be short, other distros may be longer, but I prefer not being updated all the time. I like to know, that if something worked a year ago, it will work when I try it today, and not try to keep up with features I used being removed and bugs being added. If there wasn't for security issues (and bugs made while "improving" the existing software), no updates at all, for all I care. The truth is, that I'm quite fine with FC12 phasing out soon. Would it be naive to assume that they would update packages even after EOL, if it comes to security threats? So that I will end up with a static, and yet fairly secure system at EOL + X months? Or are they abandoning the distro completely, even if they know about security issues? Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
