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Goodbye Fedora 13

Posted by hanuca on · 7 comments
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Dear Fedora fans, we are sorry to announced today that the Fedora 13 (Goddard) Linux distribution will reach end of life (EOL) next Friday, on June 24th, 2011.

Dubbed Goddard, the Fedora 13 operating system was released on May 25th, 2010. It was powered by Linux kernel 2.6.32 and it introduced features such as enhanced init system, topology awareness, color management, SystemTap static probes, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Nvidia 3D support, and KDE SC 4.4.

Today, June 13th, we are officially announcing that starting with June 24th (next Friday), users of the Fedora 13 (Goddard) operating system will no longer receive security/critical fixes and software updates.

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Comments (7)

lcafiero ·
I always found the term "end of life" for a distro kind of funny, as if we were taking it out back and shooting it. Just because Fedora's not providing updates for Fedora 13 (or the same with other distros that reach their, ahem, "end of life"), it doesn't mean it's usable; this, of course, coming from someone who still runs his business computer on Fedora 10 . . . .
caitlyn ·
If you consider not having security updates usable. I don't.
jdixon ·
> If you consider not having security updates usable. I don't.

That depends almost entirely on whether the machine in question is connected to the Internet or not.
caitlyn ·
Quoting:That depends almost entirely on whether the machine in question is connected to the Internet or not.
Do people still have ones that aren't? (Only joking) OK, for most people and for 99%+ of machines a distro without security updates might as well be dead.
gus3 ·
I can compromise a system that has no Internet connection. Remember, floppies, USB storage and optical storage can also be attack vectors.
jdixon ·
> I can compromise a system that has no Internet connection.

Yes, but that requires physical access to the premises, and if you have that you can compromise any machine.
lcafiero ·
Caitlyn -- I have other machines for that trendy Internet stuff like Web surfing and the like.

What I meant was this: The machine running Fedora 10 takes in data I enter and spits out invoices that get physically printed and mailed -- as in US Postal Service mail. Funny thing is, clients send me pieces of paper back that I stamp and bring to the bank. So I should clarify about "running the business" as such.

Oh, and gus3, you're not allowed in my office. Ever :-)

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