On 27/01/10 17:23, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> The Scientific Linux development team has put out a roadmap for the
> future of Scientific Linux 4.
> 
> http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/roadmap
> 
> Scientific Linux 4 is going to follow the same type of roadmap that we
> followed for Scientific Linux 3.
> 
> SL 4.9 will be a "legacy" release.  It will be supported until
> the time that RedHat no longer supports RHEL 4, which is February 2012.
> This release will only get minimal support, security updates only.  Red
> Hat calles this "Production 3 Life Cycle Phase" which is
> 
>   "During Production 3, at a minimum, qualified security errata of
>    important or critical impact and selected mission critical bug fixes
>    may be released independent of minor releases.
> 
>    No new functionality, new hardware enablement or updated installation
>    images are planned for release in Production 3 life cycle phase.
>    There are no minor releases planned during this phase."
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
> 
> SL 4.0-4.8 will be obsoleted.  Currently that is set to October 10,
> 2010.  That date is flexible.  We want to give users at least 6 months
> to update to SL 4.9.  So if SL 4.9 takes too long to be released, we
> will move the October date back.
> 
> Summary:
> SL 4.0-4.8 : Obsolete in October 2010
> SL 4.9 : Minimal support (security only) until February 2012
> 
> Thank You
> Scientific Linux Development Team

Just wondering what you mean by SL 4.0-4.8 being 'obsolete'? Is it the
same as saying that SL4.0-4.7 are currently 'obsolete'?


Tim Edwards