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Suse 8 EOL



On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:52:22 -0700 (PDT)
Steven Erat <stevenerat at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if Novell has a document citing End-of-Life for its older
> Suse Linux products?  Specifically, is there a confirmation of maintenance
> support or EOL for Suse 8?
> 
> It would be easy to assume that Suse 8 EOL will occur with the release of
> SLES 11 (coming in 2008?), if it hasn't already occurred with Suse 10, but
> by comparison I was surprised to find that RHEL3 is supported in
> maintenance mode until 2010 according to
> http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ , but I haven't found a
> similar document for Suse.
I'm slightly confused. SuSE 8 and SLES 8 are different products.
General support end date is Nov 30, 2007 (SLES 8 SP4). It is replaced
by SLES10. Self support is Nov 19, 2012.
http://support.novell.com/lifecycle
http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/faq.html
<http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/lcSearchResults.jsp?st=%25&x=13&y=5&sl=-1&sg=-1&pid=1000>
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