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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 :)

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  1. from the article... by BarrettAnderson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux release cycles are of course pretty fast, and Linux is either free or cheap, depending on whether or not you feel the need to add to your manual pile

    in other words, whether or not you feel like being able to use it.

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

    Do you enjoy posting articles that contain flamebait?

  3. 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.

  4. GAAAAAAAAAAH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    YOU GUYS ARE MISSING THE POINT!!!!!!!

    Ok, not all of you but people saying "we want to get rid of the shackles of 6.x..." THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE PLAN!!!

    Like I had said earlier....they are wanting to get rid of the shackles of those of us using the personal version. They don't want to support ANYTHING except the advanced server version. Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it and this is starting to smell WAY too much like what happened to "UNIX".

    THEY WILL KILL THE ERRATA FOR EVERY VERSION EXCEPT THE FRIGGIN CURRENT ONE!!!!!

    When 8.1 comes out...it' will ONLY have errata support until 8.2 comes out then you better upgrade. jesus, no wonder I never read the comments on /. anymore. And you people call yourselfs techs. I have a feeling the majority of you aren't in the business and just use it for personal use anyway. You probably haven't been paying for entitlements to 10+ machines each year....forget it. What do I care, I'm already moving on away from redhat now anyway.

  5. You mean "ever" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "They're not required to support it forever"

    Don't you mean "They're not required to support it ever"?