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Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

[Posted March 2, 2009 by jake]

From:  bugzilla-AT-redhat.com
To:  rhsa-announce-AT-redhat.com, enterprise-watch-list-AT-redhat.com
Subject:  [RHSA-2009:0297-01] Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - 3 Month End Of Life Notice
Date:  Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:38:58 -0500
Message-ID:  <200903021738.n22Hcw2x023666@int-mx1.corp.redhat.com>

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - 3 Month End Of Life Notice
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2009:0297-01
Product:           Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:      https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0297.html
Issue date:        2009-03-02
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1. Summary:

This is the 3-month notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 2.1.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1  - i386, ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 - i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 - i386
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64

3. Description:

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the
7 years life-cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 will end on May 31 2009.

?After that date, Red Hat will discontinue the technical support services,
bugfix, enhancement and security errata updates for the following products:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
* Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
* Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1

Customers running production workloads on Enterprise Linux 2.1 should plan
to migrate to a later version before May 31, 2009.  One benefit of a Red
Hat subscription is the right to upgrade to never versions of Enterprise
Linux for no extra cost. As an Enterprise Linux subscriber, you have the
option of migrating to the following supported versions:

* version 3 (Generally Available: Oct 2003, End-Of-Life: Oct 2010)
* version 4 (GA: Feb 2005, EOL: Feb 2012)
* version 5 (GA: Mar 2007, EOL: Mar 2014)

These supported versions of Enterprise Linux are available for download
from Red Hat Network.

For those customers who cannot migrate from Enterprise Linux 2.1 before its
end-of-life date, Red Hat will offer limited extended support contracts.
For more information, contact your Red Hat sales representative.

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life-cycle can be found on the Red
Hat website: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

4. Solution:

This errata contains an updated redhat-release package, that provides a 
copy of this end of life notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

485896 - Send Out RHEL 2.1 3-Month EOL Notice

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/SRPMS/red...
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/SRPMS/red...

i386:
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-24.i386.rpm

ia64:
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-124.ia64.rpm

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AW/en/os/SRPMS/red...

ia64:
redhat-release-aw-2.1AW-24.ia64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1:

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1ES/en/os/SRPMS/red...

i386:
redhat-release-es-2.1ES-24.i386.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1:

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1WS/en/os/SRPMS/red...

i386:
redhat-release-ws-2.1WS-24.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and 
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>.  More contact
details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
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Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 2, 2009 20:11 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (8 responses)

Oh thank goodness. Now my workplace can force its customers to upgrade to
something that didn't come out of the Ark.

(I spent Friday working around a zsh crash bug patched in 2004. It might
have been fixed in errata, but to a man these customers never, ever, ever
install errata because they might break things. We have to work around
every bug we see, instead, even if the workaround is itself really
intrusive and risky.)

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 2, 2009 23:16 UTC (Mon) by motk (guest, #51120) [Link] (1 responses)

I feel your pain. We're just getting off Solaris 8 ...

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 3, 2009 1:11 UTC (Tue) by th0ma7 (subscriber, #24698) [Link]

Same here with HP-UX 10.20. Hoping to get rid of our last K class system by the end of the summer... Theses are real beasts, 24/7 since 1999 :)

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 3, 2009 7:38 UTC (Tue) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link] (1 responses)

Being able to force customers to upgrade was my original thought too, but unbelievably, we have boxes running Red Hat Linux 7.2 ... *shakes head*

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 3, 2009 21:12 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Wow-ee. I suppose those boxes are doing something very boring and Just
Work and everyone forgets about them? I have one or two of those still
running kernel 2.0.36, because, well, they work. (And they're not in a
remotely hostile environment.)

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 3, 2009 9:31 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (3 responses)

If the customers never install errata, then why would they care that no new errata for RHEL 2.1 will be issued after May 31st? They can keep on running the old code as long as they want (and expect you to support it).

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 3, 2009 13:31 UTC (Tue) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] (1 responses)

Obviously I don't know the specifics of nix's situation, but often there are contractual requirements that you support something as long as the original vendor does. Once the vendor drops support for a product, many times you are allowed to do so as well (by the terms of the contract--of course getting all legal in your customers' faces is not always the best strategy... but if this situation is costing the company enough money in support/maintenance, it can be worth it anyway).

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 3, 2009 21:13 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ex*act*ly. These are banks, and the machines are running Oracle. If RHEL
goes out of its support window, my understanding is Oracle won't support
it either, so the banks scream in fear and scramble to upgrade.

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ends on May 31

Posted Mar 7, 2009 10:58 UTC (Sat) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

There's nothing at all to stop people from running it. They can even provide their own security errata if they have enough money to pay programmers to do that.

However I wouldn't really recommend people run RHEL 2.1 anywhere near the internet unless they can do their own security.


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