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 ?
>