[CentOS] How does such long term support work?

Tue Jul 30 19:07:25 UTC 2013
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 07/30/2013 11:39 AM, Patrick wrote:
> I've had nothing but trouble with BSD/Linux over the past year or so.
>
> I've been on Centos 6.4 for about a half day now and I am loving it.
>
> I am just wondering though, how does a 7 year support cycle work?
>
> I see that there is libreoffice which is kinda new. Is this because open 
> office is under oracle's influence?
>
> I am on gnome 2 right now, will I wake up one day in the next 7 years to 
> gnome 3 ? I really don't want to. Will I just have gnome 2 + bug fixes?
>
> If so how does the community do this if the gnome people drop support 
> for gnome 2.
>

What is released now will be supported (with security updates and some
enhancements) until the dates here:

http://wiki.centos.org/Download

So, if you like CentOS-6.x, you can use it until 2020 and CentOS-5.x
until 2017.

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