[TriLUG] FC2 now perfect?

John Broome jbroome at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 11:44:16 EDT 2005


On 4/27/05, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And based on my experience with Fedora Legacy and FC1, the updates are
> few and far between if even enough to keep the system secure?? ... I'm
> in the middle of moving my FC1 box to CentOS 4.  There are many other
> nice distros out there that will surely have an equivelant longer life
> term that includes updates, most importantly, those security ones when
> they are necessary.  Just my thoughts.
> 
> David McD
> 
> On 4/27/05, David A. Cafaro <dac at trilug.org> wrote:
> > Hate to break it to you but FC2 is now no longer being supported by the
> > Fedora project.  As of the release of FC4 test 2, FC2 was handed off to
> > the Fedora Legacy project. Last I checked legacy has not released any
> > updates yet for it.  I know that at least the Mozilla/Firefox browsers
> > need an update, but I was successful in taking the FC3 src rpms and
> > building new rpms for FC2 (had to update two other packages on FC2 with
> > FC3 packages, pango and desktop-file-utils).
> >
> > At this point I'm just holding up long enough to for FC4 to go official.
> >
> > -David


I think DAG's apt4rpm repo is fairly current.  I'll probably move my
home mail/web server over to either debian/unbuntu or freebsd when I
get back.  Dunno which, just depends on my mood. :)



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