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SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon
Dear suse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE Linux users, SUSE Security announces that SUSE Linux 9.3 will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for more than two years, vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux 9.3 after April 15th 2007 will not be fixed any more for this product. We expect to release the last updates around April 30th 2007. Please do not confuse SUSE Linux 9.3 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3, these are two different products. As a consequence, the SUSE Linux 9.3 distribution directory on our ftp server ftp.suse.com will be moved from /pub/suse/i386/9.3/ to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space on our mirror sites. The 9.3 directory in the update tree /pub/suse/update/9.3 will follow, as soon as all updates have been published. The discontinuation of SUSE Linux 9.3 enables us to focus on the SUSE Linux and openSUSE distributions of a newer release dates to ensure that our customers can continuously take advantage of the quality that they are used to with SUSE Linux products. This announcement holds true for SUSE Linux 9.3 only. As usual, SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following products: SUSE Linux 10.0 SUSE Linux 10.1 and openSUSE 10.2 for a two-year period after the release of the respective distribution. Please note that the maintenance cycles of SUSE Linux Enterprise products and products based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system are not affected by this announcement and have longer life cycles. Other products that will be discontinued this year: After 2 years of security support: * SUSE Linux 10.0 - October 31st 2007 After 5 years of maintenance and security support: * SUSE Linux Desktop 1.0 - November 30th 2007 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 - November 30th 2007 SUSE Linux Standard Server 8 SUSE Linux Retail Solution 8 SUSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.0 SUSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.1 United Linux 1.0 To learn more about SUSE Linux business products, please visit http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/ . For a detailed list of the life cycles of our Enterprise Products please visit http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ and http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/lcSearchResults.jsp?s... If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do not hesitate to contact SUSE Security at <security@suse.de>. (Log in to post comments)
SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon Posted Mar 13, 2007 4:17 UTC (Tue) by bduncan (subscriber, #6886) [Link] I've been using SuSE for many years since about 5.2 and 9.3 was my favourite as a solid desktop and/or notebook release. (Slackware still rules for servers.) I've used the 10.x series including 10.2 on several machines and while 10.2 has some fun eye-candy there are still a number of outstanding issues, at least on the notebook I use.
So long 9.3, you will be missed. (Looking forward to 10.3..)
SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon Posted Mar 13, 2007 12:01 UTC (Tue) by mbottrell (guest, #43008) [Link] SuSE Linux 9.3 was the last solid desktop they put together.
The 10.x series were unstable, full of bugs in comparison.
So long 9.3 ... you'll be missed.
Ohh we yearn for the great days of slickness and stability of the 9.3 era. Alas, a time forgotten...
SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon Posted Mar 13, 2007 14:05 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] As for me 10.2 is simply the best working version since I started with 5.2 I wonder what these issues are?
SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon Posted Mar 14, 2007 15:18 UTC (Wed) by cross (subscriber, #13601) [Link] > As for me 10.2 is simply the best working version since I started with> 5.2 I wonder what these issues are?
They're probably different for everybody. Personally I find the fact that 10.2 is unable to keep the correct time on hardware that works with previous versions of SuSE including 9.3, 10.0 and 10.1 most annoying. NTP cannot keep sync with my very stable NTP server (running SuSE 9) for more than maybe half an hour and is off by many minutes a day. Taking it to the SuSE lists gets you a "works for me must be your hardware" which doesn't explain why it works perfectly well with all prior versions then.
SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon Posted Mar 15, 2007 12:59 UTC (Thu) by Kmaurer (guest, #12642) [Link] I have to agree - I've had problems with the clock issue since 9.3 - infact 10.2 hung my machine during the first boot when it tried to set the hardware clock that it rendered the machine unbootable for days - fortunately time healed the wound (?) enough that I could eventually boot Kubuntu on another partition and I was able to replace the Suse partition with Fedora Core 6...not my favorite.
I was sad but hopefull when Novell bought Suse. I just don't "have a lot
SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon Posted Jan 10, 2008 8:14 UTC (Thu) by JunkEmail (guest, #49884) [Link] I've not had any (major) problems with this 9.2 Professional release/9.3 upgrade, however I did spend a good deal of time setting it up to do what I needed it to do... now support is discontinued???? That pisses me off! I paid retail for this and they cancel support less than two years of Novell taking over? I think we know what to expect from Novell from now on. There is no easy solution here upgrading is not optimal and does not support the older hardware I have, not upgrading means security risks, upgrading means major investment of time (money) and effort. Is there any alternative, nonNovell upgrade security support? Or shall I switch to,,, what???
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