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;

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 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500
 From: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list"
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 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.
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