[CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

Sat May 22 20:49:49 UTC 2010
Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Note: this is *very* different from how Ubuntu (for example) is
> numbered.  Base Ubuntu 'version' numbers are just the year.month of the
> release: Ubuntu 10.4 is just the base release of April of 2010, it is
> NOT the 4th point release of the 10th major incarnation of Ubuntu.
> Don't confuse this 'version numbering' with how CentOS's versions are
> numbered.

Correction:

Ubuntu LTS versions do have point releases, probably swiped from RHEL/CentoOS.

8.04 was published at the end of April 2008 and has been updated to
8.04.1, 8.04.2, 8.04.3, 8.04.4 every subsequent July and January.