Advance notice of discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.1

[Posted April 4, 2008 by ris]

From:		Marcus Meissner <meissner-AT-suse.de>
To:		opensuse-security-announce-AT-opensuse.org
Subject:		[security-announce] Advance notice of discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.1
Date:		Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:20:40 +0200
Message-ID:		<20080404072040.GA30531@suse.de>

Dear opensuse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE Linux users,

SUSE Security announces that SUSE Linux 10.1 will be discontinued soon.
Having provided security-relevant fixes for more than two years,
vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux 10.1 after May 15th 2008 will
not be fixed any more for this product. We expect to release the last
updates around May 30th 2008.

Please do not confuse SUSE Linux 10.1 with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
family of products, these are different products and follow different
policies.

As a consequence, the SUSE Linux 10.1 distribution directory on our
ftp server ftp.suse.com will be moved from /pub/suse/10.1/ to the
/pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space on our
mirror sites. The 10.1 directory in the update tree /pub/suse/update/10.1
will follow, as soon as all updates have been published.

The discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.1 enables us to focus on the SUSE
Linux and openSUSE distributions of a newer release dates to ensure that
our users can continuously take advantage of the quality that they
are used to with SUSE Linux products.

This announcement holds true for SUSE Linux 10.1 only. As usual, SUSE
will continue to provide update packages for the following products:

openSUSE 10.2
openSUSE 10.3
and
openSUSE 11.0 (currently in development)

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.

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>.

Advance notice of discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.1

Posted Apr 4, 2008 21:55 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link] (3 responses)

I suppose I shouldn't complain too much, but my big gripe with this is that the 10.3 release
seems to be not all that compatable with Smart Package Manager, but their own package manager
seems awfully slow....otherwise I would switch right away.  Never liked 10.2.

Advance notice of discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.1

Posted Apr 4, 2008 22:46 UTC (Fri) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

Then maybe wait for just two more months for 11.0. The package manager is even faster 
than smart or apt (saw yast -i start up in two seconds on my notebook) and it seems like 
it's going to be a very nice release :)

Advance notice of discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.1

Posted Apr 5, 2008 3:49 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

>I suppose I shouldn't complain too much, but my big gripe with this is that the 10.3 release
seems to be not all that compatable with Smart Package Manager.

Of course they are compatible ... uses RPM all the way.

Advance notice of discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.1

Posted Apr 6, 2008 7:31 UTC (Sun) by dh (subscriber, #153) [Link]

Hi,

YaST on 10.3 is definitely and massively faster than YaST on 10.2. We've 
updated a huge amount of systems from 10.2 to 10.3 and found no drawbacks.

Best regards,
Dirk