On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: ... > Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. > Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about > to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years, since allegedly no one uses > the same EL major release for more than 5 years. I mean, can you imagine > anyone who used RHEL 2.1 up until less than a year ago? So, if I set up a server with RHEL 5.5 or CentOS 5.4 today, I would only get updates until 14-Mar-2012, if the life time is reduced to 5 years? That's less than two years. That's a bit too short lifetime for my servers. Yes of course, I can upgrade to RHEL 6 when it comes out, but my reason for paying Red Hat is to avoid the upgrade. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk at crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk