On 4/1/2010 10:14 AM, R-Elists wrote:
They won't change the cycle for existing releases (they would get into contract liability if they did).
RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009).
RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010.
RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012
RHEL5 will go out of support Mar 31, 2014
*If* they change it in the future, it would only apply to the next major releases (IOW RHEL6+)
-- Benjamin Franz
wow...
think about it...
remember when *we all* were chomping at the bit for Centos3...
yeah, like horses... that's right... chomping at the bit... ;-)
at least i seem to recall it was version 3, and then Centos4 came out and we all needed a migration path from 3 to 4...
and thankfully, there was an easy way... again, if i remember correctly...
seems like yesterday cause we still use version 4 and, of course, some ver 5 too....
I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that still seems like it was a good move even if most of the problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with many years elapsing between releases, skipping a version like that may not be possible again.