On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:07:58AM +0530, Kasuladevi wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: > > I am new to Debian. Could you please tell me how long are the packages > and updates support available for each release of Debian OS. > Are older releases of Debian "hamm", "slink", "potato", "woody", > "sarge", "etch" still supported, if yes, how long will they be > supported. > > Would be very thankful for a early response. > thanks, > Kasuladevi >
As You can see from page http://www.debian.org/releases/, release Sarge and releases before that are obsolete (meaning they are no longer supported). You can see from Debian Security FAQ question 23 that support is available for one year after the publishing of the next Debian release. http://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#lifespan -- Tapio Lehtonen tapio.lehto...@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/tapio.lehtonen
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