On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 07:20 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > I'm not sure it's entirely dead, though it's closer than I suggested. > Here's the notice from its website: > > "The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being > re-examined. In the meantime, we are unable to extend support to older > Fedora Core releases as we had planned. As of now, Fedora Core 4 and > earlier distributions are no longer being maintained." > > > > You are correct though that Fedora is not shutting down. I mention this > > because > > there seem to be people on this list that do not understand the > > difference. :-( > > It's always the case that what seems clear to some is unclear to me. > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2006-December/msg00049.html (that thread ... also carrying over into January is quite clear. The FedoraLegacy project is shutting down (as in, they are doing no more updates for any FC/RH distro past, present, or future). They are not even sure if they will maintain the currently built content anywhere. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2007-January/thread.html > btw, if you're particularly keen to stat at about the RHL 7.3 level then > CentOS 2.1 is close, CentOS 3 is close to FC1 (I think) and CentOS 4 is > a good match for FC3. > > Note, "good match" is less than "perfect match." Making it work may > require some skill:-) Those are the correct FC versions as a basis for the CentOS releases, yes. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070122/2e30efe2/attachment-0005.sig>