On 04/24/2012 11:01 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM, zxq9<z...@zxq9.com> wrote:
On 04/24/2012 11:58 PM, g wrote:
On 04/24/2012 11:02 AM, zxq9 wrote:
From a question on the Japanese mailing list:
TUV is committing to a 10 year production lifecycle for 5 and 6. CentOS
has now reflected this on their project's lifecycle page. Scientific
Linux does not match this.
in a previous post from Connie Sieh;
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500
From: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list"
<rhelv6-l...@redhat.com>
To: rhelv6-l...@redhat.com
Subject: [rhelv6-list] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle
Extended to Ten Years
Today Red Hat is pleased to announce that it has extended the life cycle
of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and future releases from seven to 10 years,
effective immediately. This announcement is in response to the widespread
adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 since its introduction in 2007, and
the increasing rate of adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 since its
launch in 2010.
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hth.
I take that to mean that SL is similarly extended, then. I suppose the
project page just hasn't been updated to reflect this.
Thanks for finding that.
My understanding is that it was a simple forward of the TUV
announcement and that SL has not made an official statement about the
plan.
But I could be wrong. :(
Akemi
I don't see why there is any confusion. Quoting the SL website:
http://www.scientificlinux.org/about/future
--- BEGIN QUOTE ---
Scientific Linux plans to do security updates as long as the The
Upstream Vendor (TUV) continues releasing updates and patches. The
support end dates are based on our current understanding of TUV's
support schedule.
--- END QUOTE ---
It is pretty clear (to me at least) that they will follow TUV's decision.
The above quote is also present at
http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/roadmap
The "End Support" at http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions states
"Until at least <date>".
-Mark
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