Editing Fedora Legacy

{{Infobox Non-profit
| name                = Fedora Legacy
| logo                = Fedora legacy.jpg
| founder             = [[Red Hat]]
| type                = Community
| status              = Discontinued
| focus               = [[Free Software]]
| website             = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:Legacy
}}
'''Fedora Legacy''' was a community-supported, [[open-source software]] project<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:Legacy |title=Archive:Legacy |author= |date= 26 March 2013}}</ref> to freely distribute [[Patch (software)|patches]] for critical [[software bug]]s and [[Vulnerability (computing)|vulnerabilities]] to users of older [[Software versioning|versions]] of the [[Red Hat Linux]] and [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora Core]] [[Linux distribution]]s, after the publisher, [[Red Hat]], ceased support.

Jesse Keating and David Eisenstein, two of the Fedora Legacy [[software maintainer]]s, announced the discontinuation of the project on 31 December 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2320 |title=Fedora Legacy shutting down |last=Chung |first=Thomas |date=30 December 2006 |website=FedoraNews.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305180721/http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2320 |archivedate=5 March 2007 |accessdate=24 August 2013}}</ref>

Fedora Legacy later cited the following as reasons for discontinuing the project: Not enough people contributing, testing, and deploying patches; not enough funds; waning interest in the project and new discussion about extending the [[software release life cycle]] of Fedora Core.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ |title=Fedora Legacy Shutdown FAQ |author= |date=9 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905040726/http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ |archive-date=5 September 2013 |website=The Fedora Legacy Project |access-date=24 August 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Just before the discontinuation, Fedora Legacy was providing updates for Red Hat Linux versions 7.3 and 9, and Fedora Core 3 and 4. They ceased support for Fedora Core 1 and 2 when Red Hat published Fedora Core 6 Test 2. Earlier in 2006, Fedora Legacy announced their intention to provide updates for Red Hat 7.3 and 9 by the end of the year, and then to focus on Fedora Core 3 and 4.

== See also ==
* [[Long-term support]]
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