Goodbye SL4, r.i.p.

This was the first SL release supported over a full seven years life cycle, I believe.

Thanks so much to those who made it happen (including those no longer part of the project and unlikely to read this) and provided a decent, reliable service over such a long period.

- Stephan

On Feb 29, 2012, at 16:29 , Pat Riehecky wrote:

> In accordance with our Upstream Vendor's Errata Support Policy, the
> regular life-cycle of Scientific Linux 4 will end today, the last day
> of February 2012.
> 
> After today's date, The Upstream Vendor will discontinue their regular
> update services.  We must follow them in this matter.  Therefore, new
> bug fix, enhancement, and security errata updates will no longer be
> available for Scientific Linux 4 after the End of Life date.  They will
> not be providing updates and so we cannot provide them.
> 
> Anyone still running production workloads on Scientific Linux 4 should
> be aware that after today no updates of any kind will be published.
> Because of this, we hope everyone has completed their migration to
> Scientific Linux 5 or Scientific Linux 6 by now.
> 
> The existing Scientific Linux 4 directories will be archived in April
> 2012.  People wishing to obtain a personal archive of Scientific
> Linux 4 can do so during that window.
> 
> Again, this is a reminder of the end of life for Scientific Linux 4.
> 
> - Scientific Linux Development Team

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Stephan Wiesand
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