Re: A reminder of EOL for F8

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:55 -0500, Chris Snook wrote:
> David wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> >From last I heard Wednesday, Jan 7 is EOL for F8. So be warned.
> > 
> > 
> > In all honesty...  EOL means End Of Line... Which means no more bugfix
> > updates and no more security patches.
> > 
> > It does *not* mean that fedora 8 will stop working on January 7th, 2009.
> > 
> > ;-)
> > 
> 
> Do the F8 repos disappear on Jan 7th as well?  I'd hate to be the admin who 
> doesn't notice until Jan. 8th, and needs some tool that's not installed in order 
> to migrate gracefully.
> 
> -- Chris
> 
I think the answer is no.
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