Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10? I want it too !

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jun 16 00:27:24 UTC 2008


Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Sat, 6/14/08, Mike Bird <mgb-fedora at yosemite.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Mike Bird <mgb-fedora at yosemite.net>
>> Subject: Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10? I want it too !
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 3:48 PM
>> On Sat June 14 2008 15:31:04 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> Why not use the version of Fedora that last has KDE
>> 3.5 if this is
>>> such a big deal for you?
>> You seem to be looping Arthur.  F8 security updates end in
>> about six months and no, you're not safe without them.
>>
>> --Mike Bird
>>
>> -- 
> 
> How do you define safe?
> 
> I have run old version of KDE 3.1 from Mandrake 9.1 gotten on internet, no single update whatsoever, and I have been safe.  So it can be done, do you mean other updates, that can be critical, with apps and not the desktop here.  
> 
That is like saying you have played Russian Roulette twice and not been 
killed. It doesn't mean that your are "safe," it just means that the law 
of averages has not exhibited "regression to the mean" yet. No computer 
is really "safe," but you can reduce the mean time to failure by letting 
the evil-doers evolve their attacks without evolving your defenses.z

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot




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