Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:43:43PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> But is there enough "you" to go around to do the updates?  That's the real 

Speaking for me personally, no. :)

> question here.  We can't stop people from being dumb and not upgrading their 
> release when it goes dead.  If we gave them 2 years, they'd take it and still 
> not upgrade and then what?  I think the Fedora project is really trying to 

Oh, that's for sure -- I routinely see incredibly ancient RHL machines still
in production. However, there's a curve, and the shorter the lifespan the
more people will be caught in it. At the current 9 months, I wouldn't be
surprised if it actually includes the majority of users. At 13 months, not
so bad -- but still a huge amount.

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