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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Has Reached End of Life

Posted by timothy on from the why-we're-all-gathered-here-today dept.

prisoninmate writes: At the end of January we reported the fact that the oldest long-term supported kernel branch, Linux 2.6.32, is about to reached its end of life in February 2016, as announced by Willy Tarreau, who said that there might be another point release in a few weeks if important things need to be fixed. Well, it took a little bit longer than two weeks, and on March 12, he published details about the last maintenance release in the series, Linux kernel 2.6.32.71 LTS, along with the official end of life announcement, recommending users to move to the Linux 3.2 branch.

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  1. Re:Age? by TheReaperD · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looks like it was released on December 2nd 2009.

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  2. Finally! by aralin · · Score: 4, Informative

    As someone having to develop complex drivers for 3 years for this particular version of kernel because Cavium would not port their SDK to anything newer until couple years ago, I can honestly say, it was time... for a long time...

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  3. Longer than BSD, Windows of the same time period by raymorris · · Score: 3, Informative

    In 2009, three kernels were released, Linux 2.32, FreeBSD 7, and Windows 7. FreeBSD 7 went eol four years later, in 2013. Windows 7 service packs also ended in 2013, Windows 7 mainstream support ended in 2015, Linux 2.32 will support will (somewhat) end in 2016.

    So other operating systems have support for 4-6 years, Linux for 7 years.