On 27/01/10 17:23, Troy Dawson wrote: > Hello, > The Scientific Linux development team has put out a roadmap for the > future of Scientific Linux 4. > > http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/roadmap > > Scientific Linux 4 is going to follow the same type of roadmap that we > followed for Scientific Linux 3. > > SL 4.9 will be a "legacy" release. It will be supported until > the time that RedHat no longer supports RHEL 4, which is February 2012. > This release will only get minimal support, security updates only. Red > Hat calles this "Production 3 Life Cycle Phase" which is > > "During Production 3, at a minimum, qualified security errata of > important or critical impact and selected mission critical bug fixes > may be released independent of minor releases. > > No new functionality, new hardware enablement or updated installation > images are planned for release in Production 3 life cycle phase. > There are no minor releases planned during this phase." > > https://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ > > SL 4.0-4.8 will be obsoleted. Currently that is set to October 10, > 2010. That date is flexible. We want to give users at least 6 months > to update to SL 4.9. So if SL 4.9 takes too long to be released, we > will move the October date back. > > Summary: > SL 4.0-4.8 : Obsolete in October 2010 > SL 4.9 : Minimal support (security only) until February 2012 > > Thank You > Scientific Linux Development Team
Just wondering what you mean by SL 4.0-4.8 being 'obsolete'? Is it the same as saying that SL4.0-4.7 are currently 'obsolete'? Tim Edwards
