There may be. But I doubt if many apply to me. However, on a whim, I installed Fedora 36 on the new drive and it works great. It's possible that there was some other issue that was causing me difficulty in upgrading. One prime candidate is operator error. Be that as it may, I am now working on getting things working under Fedora 36.

I did some reading on UEFI and I have lots of philosopical disagreements, primarily the same one I always have: It solves a problem that shouldn't or doesn't exist and it is unnecessarily complex. Is this really the wave of the future? I notice my Fedora 36 install didn't use it. Apparently the NSA thinks it is a good idea. They go all google eyed and mushy over secure boot. On their page they have a "call for action" and a disclaimer that they aren't making a recommendation within 3 adjacent paragraphs.

UEFI looks like a WinTel boondoggle to me. Putting a simulator of Snoopy flying his dog house in a spreadsheet just has to be a good idea.

Apparently the NSA is now the old NSA calld SIGNT and the new NSA called CSS. I don't know how this all relates to DHS.

-Gary

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 02:46:23PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:

On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:39:34AM -0700, saclug@garymcglinn.com wrote:

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My experience with the upgrade treadmill is that it is a waste of time. By its own admission (if a concept can have that) the new versions will have issues and you need to upgrade. If the issues with an older version don't affect you, then it is perfectly fine to use it. Why upgrade and risk the fact that the new issues will affect your use case. The developers for Fedora 13 were no smarter or dumber than the developers who are writing Fedora 36. Or pick your distro of choice.

There are probably a boat load of known vulnerabilities in F13. It's probably a script kitty winter wonderland, depending upon what you have installed/running! If you you want software that is secure proof, you have to run something like "Ironsides", written using SPARK/Ada.

https://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/

Beyon that, the best is to keep patching on a stable distro that doesn't have API changes, or minimal changes.

Brian

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