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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. tired of calls like this: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    noob - "I am having a problem with USB..."

    RH person - "What version are you using?"

    noob - "Uhh... version 5.0 I think..."

    RH person - "FUCK OFF AND UPDATE YOUR SHIT MAN!!! IT IS FREE!!!"

  2. Re:That's correct.. by BarrettAnderson · · Score: 4, Funny

    and this of course does not apply to microsoft; you can still yell at them.

  3. Really. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean, even Linus himself end-of-lifed the fantastic 1.2.13 kernel a long time ago.

  4. Re:Microsoftish ? by belloc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mmmm...Microsoftfish. I love a fillet of Microsoftfish with a little lemon butter and basil garnish.

    [rereads] Oh, Microsoft-ish?

    Never mind.

    Belloc

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  5. M$ by yerricde · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, cut it out with the "M$" crap.

    Microsoft built its early business on porting its BASIC programming language interpreter to several 8-bit microcomputer platforms and licensing it to the computer manufacturers. In line-numbered BASIC, the name of a variable of type string ends in '$'. A valid program in "Applesoft BASIC" (the BASIC interpreter in the Apple II ROM, developed by Microsoft):

    10 LET M$ = "Microsoft"
    20 PRINT M$; " introduces the Windows XP operating system"
    30 END

    I find using a BASIC expression to refer to a BASIC vendor just as valid as using the pattern *n?x to refer to a family of operating systems whose shells recognize the name of the operating system in that glob pattern.

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  6. Re:That's correct.. by Dysan2k · · Score: 2, Funny
    Closed software (and national copyright terms dictated by a mouse) instead seeks to keep obsolete software copyrights in the hands of corporations for 1.5 human lifetimes. In terms of the lifetime of a computer, that's like 1500 years!


    Lifetime of a computer being 1500 years? Bah.. More like 1500 hours. Ok, yeah.. that's the obsolete marker, but still.. I mean, do you wait a lifetime before someone can leave their job? Nope! 30 years and they're obsolete. Kick 'em out the door! At least with a computer you don't have to pay a pension, bloody leeches!

    You'll work for pennies to allow me to afford another plane! The 747 is just too small! Bonus? INGRATES! You work for the privilege of entering this building lackies! *whip crack* Row faster!!

    Oh.. sorry.. Been going through job-withdrawal lately.
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  7. Debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hi, Debian.