[twuug] Expiring Distros

["S. Bergeron" <smbergeron@xxxxxxx>]

Blah blah blah blah.

It's okay to EOL software!  Does it matter that your distro expired if a) you downloaded and got no support anyway, or b) bought a box, and had only a fixed amount of time for support?

If you're running an old distro on an important machine, it's time to upgrade.  If it's a machine behind a firewall, or not connected to the internet, why upgrade it?  I will concede that the rpm distros are tough to upgrade to a new version sometimes.  If you have concerns about that, try Debian.  Unless you want to upgrade the kernel, you don't even need a reboot for a dist-upgrade (3.0 still supports Linux 2.0.x).
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S. Bergeron, smbergeron@bigfoot.com
http://members.cox.net/smbergeron/


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