----- "Bob McKay" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi; there seems to be a structure problem in the fedora download > website. > .It's easy to get the current release - nicely designed (thanks) > .It's hard, but not impossible, to find out-of-support releases of > fedora (currently, > this means up to F10). This requires following the links > All Download Methods > See old versions of Fedora > archive > from the main download page. I think this needs some fixing > ("See old versions of Fedora" should also be available from the > "View more Fedora options" page), but it's not to bad. > .There is no link _at all_ that I can find to the supported-but-not- > current > releases (i.e. Fedora 11 and 12 at the moment). This is bad, because > it means that if someone can't run F13 for some reason, they are > likely > to revert to (unsupported) F10. The only way I could find to get F11 > (which I need to check some software back-compatibility) was to > find the F13 download link, then reconstruct what the F11 link must > be. Fortunately, the links are very systematic, and it worked. But > this > really isn't the way it should be... >
It is as it should be in my opinion. Unsupported releases get no security fixes as such should be considered insecure, dangerous and ethically irresponsible to use. In fact I disagree with them being available online at all. -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robert 'Bob' Jensen || Fedora Unity Founder | | [email protected] || http://fedoraunity.org/ | | http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ | | http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen | | http://www.facebook.com/rpjensen | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- websites mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
