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Fedora Legacy Shutting Down

An anonymous reader writes to pass on the news that the Fedora Legacy project is going away. The project has been providing security updates and critical bugfixes to end-of-life Red Hat and Fedora Core releases. From the article: "In case any of you are not aware, the Fedora Legacy project is in the process of shutting down. 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. Discussions... on the #Fedora-Legacy channel have brought to light the fact that certain Fedora Legacy properties (servers) may be going away soon, such as the repository at http://download.fedoralegacy.org and the build server."

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  1. Re:Justification? by LnxAddct · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has absolutely nothing to do with Red Hat... Fedora Legacy is not controlled or funded or anything by Red Hat. It is community driven, which is what Fedora is all about, and apparently the interest just wasn't there in Fedora Legacy. Hell, at the bottom of http://fedoralegacy.org/ it even says "The Fedora Legacy Project is not a part of Red Hat, Inc."
    Regards,
    Steve