[CentOS] RHEL4 EOL

Thu Mar 10 13:25:41 UTC 2011
Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 05:57 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>> Just curious... CentOS4 lifetime tracks RHEL4 somewhat... Since RedHat
>> has announced LTS (Long Term Support) for RHEL4, are there plans to
>> extend the CentOS 4 support window?
>
> No, BECAUSE ... Red Hat does not publicly release the sources for their
> Long Term Support packages.
>
> They are not releasing the Long Term packages for EL3 now, they won't be
> doing it for EL4 either.
>
> Now, if they DID release them, then CentOS would produce them.


Ahhh.. thanks for the info...
It's just as well in any case.  Gives me some more leverage when I
push to upgrade the 4.x systems...