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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. Re:Microsoftish ? by Metallic+Matty · · Score: 1, Troll

    I do not recall Redhat supporting any of their distro releases for 8 years.

    Yeah, it didn't take them 8 years to fix all the problems & security issues. ;)

  2. Re:Microsoftish ? by BrunoC · · Score: 0, Troll

    I totally agree with you dnaumov, I've named this policy "Microsoftish" due to the Win 95 support model, which RedHat has taken to the next level... I know it's unfair, but i'm just naming it after the most famous EOL supporter known to mankind.

  3. Re:Wow by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    Spare us your fanboy comments. What you said there makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, unless you happen to be a 13-year old script kiddie with nothing better to do than compile the latest kernel while watching Pokemon reruns.

    For companies trying to run Linux as part of their enterprise, this is not something you "get accustomed to" and the fact that it's Linux and not Windows doesn't make it any better.

  4. RedHat and MS by Quill_28 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Come on RedHat is the MS of the linux world.

    Case in point: do an ls -l on your redhat box and then ls -l on almost any other unix box

    You will notice that the listing on RedHat is not correct:

    RedHat ls:

    Aaa
    aaa
    BBB

    Any other would be

    Aaa
    BBB
    aaa

    There is quite a number of others things redhat scarifices to be more user friendly(or something)
    Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it is bad for business or I hate RedHat, just an observation.