on 4-1-2010 6:42 AM Benjamin Franz spake the following: > Mogens Kjaer wrote: >> 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 > 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 Since the world will end in 2012, your version 5 installs will be just fine!!! LOL > > 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+) > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 259 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100401/9ad5fc1b/attachment-0005.sig>