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Red Hat Announces Product EOL Calendar

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-not-forever dept.

BrunoC writes "Looks like Red Hat is getting a little Microsoftish and is quietly introducing its brand new 12-month-only Errata. Quoting The Reg: 'Red Hat's current death list EOLs RH 7.1-8.0 at the end of this year, while 6.2 and 7.0 get theirs as of the end of March.' You can read the whole article here." I don't see how this is "Microsoftish" -- the code Red Hat creates or includes is still GPL, and you can pay anyone willing to fix it. They're not required to support it forever :)

2 of 532 comments (clear)

  1. Timothy? by gearheadsmp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do you enjoy posting articles that contain flamebait?

  2. Re:Microsoftish ? by garcia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    who cares if RH drops support for older distributions?

    Personally I would MUCH prefer that they did this more often. Linux distributions are full of programs that need to have constant updating.

    So we should bash RH for basically forcing people to upgrade and be more secure?

    Go Microsoft and go RH. Force the morons to fix the problems or the plagues will continue to effect the Internet.