SL 6 will reach end of life in Nov 2020.  There are no plans to

maintain it beyond that date.



Pat



On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 16:57 +0100, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, Larry Linder wrote:

> 

> > We looked at the end of life for sl 6 as 2024 and thought it gave

> > us a

> > lot of time to find another linux or BSD that we could use.

> 

> RHEL 6 goes into Extended Life Phase after 30 November 2020

>  	

> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_articles_4665701&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=em5Bg102D_q0ylKfy-wUopWvWEryOjL6ZxGnlz9-4hI&s=pBm1aoMkOmaU71EpWyKv4R3AquospuxPMI-7mp0X5iw&e=

>  

> which means that Red Hat customers/licencees will have to purchase

> Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On subscription to continue to 

> receive limited software maintenance and (most) technical support.

> 

> I imagine that SL6 support will be difficult to maintain in the

> present manner once there are no longer updates from Red Hat

> (although I suppose the GPL might allow a licencee to make the

> source 

> available ...).

> 

> What are the plans for SL6 after Nov 2020 ?

>