GarUlbricht7netscape.net
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 15:15:11 CST

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Avtar Gill <av_gillsympatico.ca> wrote:
>Jason Joines wrote:
>> We have a lot of servers running SuSE 8.0 Professional. I know
>> updates and patches are no longer available from SuSE for versions 7.3
>> and earlier but I don't remember when that will run out for 8.0.
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>
> Each SuSE release (not the enterprise ones) seem to be supported for 2
> years. SuSE Professional 8.0 was released on April 22 2002..
> ttp://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux02/SuSE_Linux_8-0_announced_story-01.html
>
> So I'm guessing support for that release will not be available
> after April 2004.
>
> P.S. Questions like this probably belong on the
> suse-linux-e mailing

Errr, Roman Drahtmueller usually announces to this list
when SuSE will discontiue making security patches availablable.

See for example: "Re: [suse-security] SuSE 7.3"
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security/2003-Oct/0025.html

I agree that SuSE is on approximately a two year product cycle,
but there is usually a grace period of a month or two after a
new distro is released so people can make an orderly transition.

Example: 9.0 came out in late September, 2003,
and 7.3 was discontinued mid-November, 2003.

Even so, might be time to think about what
you are going to switch too..(9.0, or wait for 9.1)
(9.0 seems pretty stable, might be a good choice.)

Hope this helps,
Gar

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