Red Hat Announces Product EOL Calendar

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 :)

Comments

tired of calls like this:

[Anonymous Coward]

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!!!"

Re:That's correct..

[BarrettAnderson]

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

Really.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

M$

[yerricde]

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.