Goodbye SL4, r.i.p. This was the first SL release supported over a full seven years life cycle, I believe.
Thanks so much to those who made it happen (including those no longer part of the project and unlikely to read this) and provided a decent, reliable service over such a long period. - Stephan On Feb 29, 2012, at 16:29 , Pat Riehecky wrote: > In accordance with our Upstream Vendor's Errata Support Policy, the > regular life-cycle of Scientific Linux 4 will end today, the last day > of February 2012. > > After today's date, The Upstream Vendor will discontinue their regular > update services. We must follow them in this matter. Therefore, new > bug fix, enhancement, and security errata updates will no longer be > available for Scientific Linux 4 after the End of Life date. They will > not be providing updates and so we cannot provide them. > > Anyone still running production workloads on Scientific Linux 4 should > be aware that after today no updates of any kind will be published. > Because of this, we hope everyone has completed their migration to > Scientific Linux 5 or Scientific Linux 6 by now. > > The existing Scientific Linux 4 directories will be archived in April > 2012. People wishing to obtain a personal archive of Scientific > Linux 4 can do so during that window. > > Again, this is a reminder of the end of life for Scientific Linux 4. > > - Scientific Linux Development Team -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
