@Sal: Fedora use licensed software? Hell would freeze over before that ever happened.
@creativetux: I understand that there are reasons to not update your distro, that being said as long as your video card drivers and java are up to date, that's not the only concern as to why you should update your distro. It may be fine for minecraft, but does the fact that he hasn't received any security patches in that time span sound just a little bit compromising?