Newest Gnome versus LTS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:55:44 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>So while checking a version of a package, you should always also check
>its patchlevel [1].

Right now I wanted to explain this, too, by another post scriptum :).

However, security maintenance requires some user action. The users get
informed by notices provided by the security teams, as soon as security
flaws are known, even if fixes do not exist. To care about this is not
only required related to packages, but also related to hardware. Does
vendor foo still provide fixed microcode/firmware for old hardware?
People are wining about 32-bit support dropped by several Linux
distros, but they ignore that the old hardware is a security risk,
discontinued and unsupported since long ago.