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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. 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.