On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM, zxq9 <[log in to unmask]> 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"
>>      <[log in to unmask]>
>>  To: [log in to unmask]
>>  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