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SUSE Linux 9.2 security support is now discontinued.

From:  Marcus Meissner <meissner-AT-suse.de>
To:  opensuse-announce-AT-opensuse.org
Subject:  [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 9.2 security support is now discontinued.
Date:  Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:02:56 +0100

Hi,

With todays release of "pam_ldap" we discontinue the security
support for SUSE Linux 9.2.

For the discontinuation schedule of our SUSE Linux products,
please have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime
The next discontinued SUSE Linux version will be SUSE Linux 9.3, 
around end of April 2007.


SUSE Linux 9.2 was released in begin of October 2004.
It was the first release featuring Delta RPMs, making downloads of
patches even smaller than with the Patch RPMs we used before.

The difference in "Recommended" patches is mostly due to the previous
SUSE Linux 9.1 being the base of SLES 9 and also the first release with
Linux 2.6 kernel and so getting more bugfixes.

Patches (active patches) (difference to SL 9.1):
		Total:		581	(278 active)	(-58)
		Security:	487	(204 active)	(-5)
		Recommended:	74	(57 active)	(-45)
		Optional:	20	(17 active)	(-8)

Split by type of patch (compared with 9.1 for the ones with large
numbers):
     17 kernel			(-3)
     16 clamav			(+3)
     14 apache2-mod_php4	(-3)
     13 MozillaFirefox		(+2)
     11 opera			( 0)
     10 ethereal		( 0)
      9 phpMyAdmin		( 0)
      8 squid			(-2)
      7 apache2			(-2)
      7 squirrelmail		(+1)
      6 kdelibs3		(-5)
      6 mailman			( 0)
      6 MozillaThunderbird
      6 wget
      6 xorg-x11-server
      6 xpdf
      5 acroread
      5 gaim
      5 gpg
      5 gpg2
      5 horde
      5 ImageMagick
      5 java-1_4_2-sun
      5 kdegraphics3-pdf
      5 libtiff
      5 mozilla
      5 mysql
      5 postgresql
      5 RealPlayer
      5 ruby
      4 dia
      4 evolution
      4 freeradius
      4 gd
      4 gpdf
      4 heimdal
      4 mpg123
      4 openssh
      4 openssl
      4 pdftohtml
      4 samba
      4 xine-lib
      (rest has 3 occurences or less)

du of update tree:
1748156 ./deltas
1796    ./misc/resizer
1800    ./misc
2156    ./patches
3652    ./patches.obsolete
23068   ./repodata
3696756 ./rpm/i586
87780   ./rpm/noarch
1259832 ./rpm/src
2486308 ./rpm/x86_64
7530680 ./rpm
24      ./scripts
9309540 .

Ciao, Marcus


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SUSE Linux 9.2 security support is now discontinued.

Posted Nov 23, 2006 4:10 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

But, annoyingly, the people running ftp.suse.com decided to move the last set of updates for 9.0 and 9.1 to somewhere where YoU can't find it anymore; presumably they'll do the same thing with 9.2.

So make sure you update those 9.2 machines that you normally can't *now*, boys and girls.

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