Forget Hardy

[Karl Larsen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:45 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> I can get zero help from all you experts so I have decided what I do 
>> will suit me and not you. 
>>     
>
> ???. Suit yourself, then. I hope you stop being a drain on resources and
> stop posting.
>
>   
>> I am going to forget Hardy and stay with this 
>> old 7-10 until the next new version comes out. I have it well backed up 
>> and when there is no longer support for this version I will not need any.
>>     
>
> For the benefit of anyone else reading this: this is a bad idea, since
> you cannot simply decide that you "will not need any" support. If the
> machine is in any way connected to an untrusted network such as the
> internet, having security updates is a very, very, very good idea. E.g.,
> serious exploits for Firefox _were_ found and hat to be patched by
> updates.
>
>
>   
    You forget that Firefox has a web page. If I need a new version I 
can get it from there. I will NOT get a beta version like Hardy has!

Karl


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