Re: Lifecycle
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, g wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigF04C7BC08F8040F79BD8DF61 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/24/2012 03:53 PM, zxq9 wrote: I take that to mean that SL is similarly extended, then. I suppose the project page just hasn't been updated to reflect this. -=3D- i tend to presume as such. Thanks for finding that. -=3D- welcome. --=20 peace out. tc.hago, g =2E *please reply plain text only. html text are deleted* in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ --enigF04C7BC08F8040F79BD8DF61 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEVAwUBT5b2NxqTH/WyqZlTAQIzIQgAlyEkijSkf5k+cSJPBNu3T8iSHm4TDp8S /jMYJNCC3fq2jW8h6RQKFLhpWgqwYynRhNOB6qz4RdJyhMhZhYb+N1QBmpmKvvq8 9EYR3O/q9rIYDVAgZDg/zl8FpSyMvFDi/eYw8GublPmGV5qI9ISjx6EMV/bUcFwi Srlg8N2THp7Kswl39Dz2ne3YpFv+/dYnRjgxjrx84zxBlkx0djZncg7+X3H1oePK 0Uw99m4LF+syKuReqQikMawzlLdmEA3EEXCvoL+dVTzKzFcHvGOzKSOJSgnu8IYp 94ubm1dSELuco0kr1IaPIbmtNWRV15ZhLsGvbbx299CSX7Quee5SjQ== =9y4N -END PGP SIGNATURE- --enigF04C7BC08F8040F79BD8DF61-- We are working on this. -Connie Sieh
Re: Lifecycle
On 04/24/2012 11:02 AM, zxq9 wrote: From a question on the Japanese mailing list: TUV is committing to a 10 year production lifecycle for 5 and 6. CentOS has now reflected this on their project's lifecycle page. Scientific Linux does not match this. in a previous post from Connie Sieh; Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500 From: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list rhelv6-l...@redhat.com To: rhelv6-l...@redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Extended to Ten Years Today Red Hat is pleased to announce that it has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and future releases from seven to 10 years, effective immediately. This announcement is in response to the widespread adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 since its introduction in 2007, and the increasing rate of adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 since its launch in 2010. hth. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply plain text only. html text are deleted* in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Lifecycle
On 04/24/2012 11:58 PM, g wrote: On 04/24/2012 11:02 AM, zxq9 wrote: From a question on the Japanese mailing list: TUV is committing to a 10 year production lifecycle for 5 and 6. CentOS has now reflected this on their project's lifecycle page. Scientific Linux does not match this. in a previous post from Connie Sieh; Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500 From: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list rhelv6-l...@redhat.com To: rhelv6-l...@redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Extended to Ten Years Today Red Hat is pleased to announce that it has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and future releases from seven to 10 years, effective immediately. This announcement is in response to the widespread adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 since its introduction in 2007, and the increasing rate of adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 since its launch in 2010. hth. I take that to mean that SL is similarly extended, then. I suppose the project page just hasn't been updated to reflect this. Thanks for finding that.
Re: Lifecycle
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM, zxq9 z...@zxq9.com wrote: On 04/24/2012 11:58 PM, g wrote: On 04/24/2012 11:02 AM, zxq9 wrote: From a question on the Japanese mailing list: TUV is committing to a 10 year production lifecycle for 5 and 6. CentOS has now reflected this on their project's lifecycle page. Scientific Linux does not match this. in a previous post from Connie Sieh; Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500 From: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list rhelv6-l...@redhat.com To: rhelv6-l...@redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Extended to Ten Years Today Red Hat is pleased to announce that it has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and future releases from seven to 10 years, effective immediately. This announcement is in response to the widespread adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 since its introduction in 2007, and the increasing rate of adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 since its launch in 2010. hth. I take that to mean that SL is similarly extended, then. I suppose the project page just hasn't been updated to reflect this. Thanks for finding that. My understanding is that it was a simple forward of the TUV announcement and that SL has not made an official statement about the plan. But I could be wrong. :( Akemi
Re: Lifecycle
On 04/24/2012 11:01 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM, zxq9z...@zxq9.com wrote: On 04/24/2012 11:58 PM, g wrote: On 04/24/2012 11:02 AM, zxq9 wrote: From a question on the Japanese mailing list: TUV is committing to a 10 year production lifecycle for 5 and 6. CentOS has now reflected this on their project's lifecycle page. Scientific Linux does not match this. in a previous post from Connie Sieh; Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500 From: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list rhelv6-l...@redhat.com To: rhelv6-l...@redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Extended to Ten Years Today Red Hat is pleased to announce that it has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and future releases from seven to 10 years, effective immediately. This announcement is in response to the widespread adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 since its introduction in 2007, and the increasing rate of adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 since its launch in 2010. hth. I take that to mean that SL is similarly extended, then. I suppose the project page just hasn't been updated to reflect this. Thanks for finding that. My understanding is that it was a simple forward of the TUV announcement and that SL has not made an official statement about the plan. But I could be wrong. :( Akemi I don't see why there is any confusion. Quoting the SL website: http://www.scientificlinux.org/about/future --- BEGIN QUOTE --- Scientific Linux plans to do security updates as long as the The Upstream Vendor (TUV) continues releasing updates and patches. The support end dates are based on our current understanding of TUV's support schedule. --- END QUOTE --- It is pretty clear (to me at least) that they will follow TUV's decision. The above quote is also present at http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/roadmap The End Support at http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions states Until at least date. -Mark -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
Re: Lifecycle
On 04/24/2012 03:53 PM, zxq9 wrote: I take that to mean that SL is similarly extended, then. I suppose the project page just hasn't been updated to reflect this. -=- i tend to presume as such. Thanks for finding that. -=- welcome. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply plain text only. html text are deleted* in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
