From: Marcus Meissner (meissner_at_suse.de)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 11:11:15 CET
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:11:15 +0100 From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Message-ID: <20080207101115.GB18600@suse.de> Subject: [suse-sles-e] SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 enters Extended Maintenance
Hi,
With the release of a Squid security fix on December 30 2007 we have
entered a new maintenance phase for the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
(SLES 8) line of products.
Following product life time changes become active as of now:
1. Extended Maintenance for a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 subset
Following subset of products have now entered extended maintenance:
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86 (Intel 32bit)
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries (S/390 31bit)
Using this maintenance extension requires an additional subscription.
The conditions and how-to-buy for the extension are shown in the
following 2 page document:
http://www.novell.com/rc/docrepository/public/14/basedocument.2007-11-05.2056787955/4611159_f_en.pdf
To migrate your machine to SLES 8 Extended Maintenance, replace in the files:
/var/adm/YaST/ProdDB/prod_*
the line (if present):
=YouPath: i386/update/SuSE-SLES/8
by:
=YouPath: i386/update/SuSE-SLES/8-EXTENDED
(replace i386 by s390 for the the S/390 version).
2. End of Life for the rest of the SLES 8 architectures
Following products have reached End of Life, support for them is
discontinued and no more updates will be published for them:
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64 (AMD 64bit)
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IPF (Intel Itanium)
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM zSeries (IBM zSeries 64bit)
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries (IBM PowerPC)
Currently the following additional SUSE Linux Enterprise Server products exist
and are in maintenance (regular / extended maintenance):
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (regular maintenance until July 30th 2009)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (regular maintenance until July 31st 2011)
Please see the product lifecycle page at http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/
for more information.
So lets take a look back at the history of SLES 8...
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 was released end of October 2002, making its
regular maintenance lifetime 5 years.
SLES 8 was based on the UnitedLinux development also done by SUSE which
was a cooperation between SUSE, Caldera, Connectiva and TurboLinux.
The Linux kernel was originally 2.4.19, but was upgraded to 2.4.21 base with
Service Pack 3.
Some statistics regarding our online updates:
Total: 696 (367 active)
Security: 517 (251 active)
Recommended: 156 (104 active)
Optional: 21 ( 12 active)
YAST: 2 ( 0 active)
Top issues (with 5 or more updates):
32 kernel
26 mod_php4
20 ethereal
14 mozilla
13 samba
13 cups
11 squid
9 openssl
9 mysql
8 sendmail
8 openssh
8 cyrus-imapd
7 libpng
7 heimdal
7 gpg
7 cvs
6 xshared
6 timezone
6 rsync
6 openldap2
5 tcpdump
5 snort
5 ruby
5 qt3
5 mc
5 libtiff
5 laus
5 java2
5 fetchmail
5 dhcp-server
5 bind9
5 apache
Ciao, Marcus
-- Working, but not speaking, for the following german company: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
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