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That's interesting.That's interesting.Posted Jun 16, 2004 20:24 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)Parent article: End of support for SUSE 8.0 I distinctly remember the SuSE rep at the Desktop Linux conference last summer in Tyngsboro saying that all releases of SuSE would be supported for *five* years.
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That's interesting. Posted Jun 16, 2004 21:36 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] Was that before they were bought by Novell? If it was... it looks like Novell is looking at the costs of updates/fixes and realizing that its more expensive for people who dont pay.
That's interesting. Posted Jun 17, 2004 10:48 UTC (Thu) by phildriscoll (guest, #3914) [Link] I was always under the impression that support was 2 years on the'domestic' products and 5 on SLES.
That's interesting. Posted Jun 17, 2004 10:45 UTC (Thu) by duck (guest, #4444) [Link] That is probably a misunderstanding. 5 years for the (expensive)business-line (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, etc), and 2 years for the (cheap) "consumers" line. They stick to this scheme pretty well. Cheers Peter
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