End of support for SUSE 8.0 [LWN.net]

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head><title>End of support for SUSE 8.0 [LWN.net]</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noai, noimageai"> <link rel="icon" href="https://static.lwn.net/images/favicon.png" type="image/png"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="LWN.net headlines" href="https://lwn.net/headlines/rss"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Comments posted to this article" href="https://lwn.net/headlines/89794/"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/CSS/lwn"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/CSS/nosub"> <script type="text/javascript">var p="http",d="static";if(document.location.protocol=="https:"){p+="s";d="engine";}var z=document.createElement("script");z.type="text/javascript";z.async=true;z.src=p+"://"+d+".adzerk.net/ados.js";var s=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(z,s);</script> <script type="text/javascript"> var ados_keywords = ados_keywords || []; if( location.protocol=='https:' ) { ados_keywords.push('T:SSL'); } else { ados_keywords.push('T:HTTP'); } var ados = ados || {}; ados.run = ados.run || []; ados.run.push(function() { ados_add_placement(4669, 20979, "azk13321_leaderboard", 4).setZone(16026); ados_add_placement(4669, 20979, "azk93271_right_zone", [5,10,6]).setZone(16027); ados_add_placement(4669, 20979, "azk31017_tracking", 20).setZone(20995); ados_setKeywords(ados_keywords.join(', ')); ados_load(); });</script> </head> <body> <a name="t"></a> <div id="menu"><a href="/"><img src="https://static.lwn.net/images/logo/barepenguin-70.png" class="logo" border="0" alt="LWN.net Logo"> <span class="logo">LWN<br>.net</span> <span class="logobl">News from the source</span></a> <a href="/"><img src="https://static.lwn.net/images/lcorner-ss.png" class="sslogo" border="0" alt="LWN"></a><div class="navmenu-container"> <ul class="navmenu"> <li><a class="navmenu" href="#t"><b>Content</b></a><ul><li><a href="/current/">Weekly Edition</a></li><li><a href="/Archives/">Archives</a></li><li><a href="/Search/">Search</a></li><li><a href="/Kernel/">Kernel</a></li><li><a href="/Security/">Security</a></li><li><a href="/Calendar/">Events calendar</a></li><li><a href="/Comments/unread">Unread comments</a></li><li><hr></li><li><a href="/op/FAQ.lwn">LWN FAQ</a></li><li><a href="/op/AuthorGuide.lwn">Write for us</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="navmenu" href="#t"><b>Edition</b></a><ul><li><a href="/Articles/89003/">Return to the Distributions page</a></li></ul></li> </ul></div> </div>  <div class="not-handset" style="margin-left: 10.5em; display: block;"> <div class="not-print"> <div id="azk13321_leaderboard"></div> </div> </div> <div class="topnav-container"> <div class="not-handset"><form action="https://lwn.net/Login/" method="post" name="loginform" class="loginform"> <label><b>User:</b> <input type="text" name="Username" value="" size="8" id="uc" /></label> <label><b>Password:</b> <input type="password" name="Password" size="8" id="pc" /></label> <input type="hidden" name="target" value="/Articles/89794/" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Log in" /></form> | <form action="https://lwn.net/subscribe/" method="post" class="loginform"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Subscribe" /> </form> | <form action="https://lwn.net/Login/newaccount" method="post" class="loginform"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register" /> </form> </div> <div class="handset-only"> <a href="/subscribe/"><b>Subscribe</b></a> / <a href="/Login/"><b>Log in</b></a> / <a href="/Login/newaccount"><b>New account</b></a> </div> </div><div class="maincolumn flexcol"> <div class="middlecolumn"> <div class="PageHeadline"> <h1>End of support for SUSE 8.0</h1> <div class="Byline">[Posted June 16, 2004 by corbet] <p> </div> </div> <div class="ArticleText"> <table> <tr><td valign="top"><b>From</b>:</td> <td> </td><td valign="top">Roman Drahtmueller <draht-AT-suse.de></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>To</b>:</td> <td> </td><td valign="top">suse-security-announce-AT-suse.com</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Subject</b>:</td> <td> </td><td valign="top">[suse-security-announce] Discontinued SUSE Linux Distributions</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date</b>:</td> <td> </td><td valign="top">Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:00:21 +0200 (MEST)</td></tr> </table><p> <pre> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Wed Jun 16 20:00:00 MEST 2004 Dear suse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE LINUX users, having provided security-relevant fixes for version 8.0 of our home user product, SUSE Linux, for two years, we would like to inform you that SUSE Linux 8.0 will be discontinued for all architectures. Vulnerabilities found after June 30th 2004 will not be fixed any more for SUSE Linux 8.0. By consequence, the SUSE Linux 8.0 distribution directories on our ftp server ftp.suse.com will be moved to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space after the recent availability of the new SUSE LINUX 9.1 ftp version; the 8.0 directories in the update trees will follow later in July/August 2004, as soon as all updates have been published. The discontinuation of SUSE Linux 8.0 enables us to focus on the SUSE LINUX distributions of a newer release date 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 8.0 only. As usual, SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following home users distributions: SuSE Linux 8.1 SuSE Linux 8.2 SUSE LINUX 9.0 and SUSE LINUX 9.1 for a two-year period after the release of the respective distribution. Please note that the maintenance cycles of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server products and products based on the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server operating system are not affected by this announcement. To learn more about SUSE LINUX business products, please visit <a href="http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/">http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/</a>. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do not hesitate to contact SUSE security at <security@suse.de>. Best regards, Roman Drahtm眉ller, SUSE Security. - - -- - - | Roman Drahtm眉ller <draht@suse.de> // "You don't need eyes to see, | SUSE Linux AG - Security Phone: // you need vision!" | N眉rnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // Maxi Jazz, Faithless | - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQNCIt3ey5gA9JdPZAQHfsAf+Iw5nKUNv3XI+F550AAoCsLs91H2+kVqN N6ttJJlpIewqLVtsLI0/W/BDhDMQiFjCbH+TFBjOWTg6u7PwVVwVWdXZNuiTYANE Qtqt48GHNF+yrRgE5d6jp8DBDI8nofHw2Hqh/LhFcdV2M5IUGBUZo99bEVB1izsE o3HjNA+DK6RVn5hehVFZm8CQYAcous38sbEek83hHIUudC1BPrKCbowiEJ9CyDEs /unhINE6NXquPyclj15YfILZEdUwIKUh9gWAFjc68shD/8cYBEQo4JVS9tRPelO0 U9QYtfSr6USNdGX6J4E2WZJVmb4Q1LzAvjTIoUpzDl1pUP23nZIbDQ== =jZB0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-announce-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-announce-help@suse.com </pre><br clear="all"><hr width="60%%" align="left"> <form action="/Login/" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="target" value="/Articles/89794/" /> <input type="submit" name="login" value="Log in" /> to post comments <p> </div>  <p><a name="Comments"></a> <a name="CommAnchor89817"></a> <details class="CommentBox" open> <summary><h3 class="CommentTitle">That's interesting.</h3> <div class="AnnLine"> <p class="CommentPoster"> Posted Jun 16, 2004 20:24 UTC (Wed) by <b>mattdm</b> (subscriber, #18) [<a href="/Articles/89817/">Link</a>] (3 responses) </p> </div> </summary> 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. <div class="CommentReplyButton"> <form action="/Articles/89817/comment" method="post"> <input type="submit" value="Reply to this comment"> </form> </div> <p> <a name="CommAnchor89826"></a> <details class="CommentBox" open> <summary><h3 class="CommentTitle">That's interesting.</h3> <div class="AnnLine"> <p class="CommentPoster"> Posted Jun 16, 2004 21:36 UTC (Wed) by <b>smoogen</b> (subscriber, #97) [<a href="/Articles/89826/">Link</a>] (1 responses) </p> </div> </summary> 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. <div class="CommentReplyButton"> <form action="/Articles/89826/comment" method="post"> <input type="submit" value="Reply to this comment"> </form> </div> <p> <a name="CommAnchor89899"></a> <details class="CommentBox" open> <summary><h3 class="CommentTitle">That's interesting.</h3> <div class="AnnLine"> <p class="CommentPoster"> Posted Jun 17, 2004 10:48 UTC (Thu) by <b>phildriscoll</b> (guest, #3914) [<a href="/Articles/89899/">Link</a>] </p> </div> </summary> I was always under the impression that support was 2 years on the <br>'domestic' products and 5 on SLES. <div class="CommentReplyButton"> <form action="/Articles/89899/comment" method="post"> <input type="submit" value="Reply to this comment"> </form> </div> <p> </details> </details> <a name="CommAnchor89897"></a> <details class="CommentBox" open> <summary><h3 class="CommentTitle">That's interesting.</h3> <div class="AnnLine"> <p class="CommentPoster"> Posted Jun 17, 2004 10:45 UTC (Thu) by <b>duck</b> (guest, #4444) [<a href="/Articles/89897/">Link</a>] </p> </div> </summary> That is probably a misunderstanding. 5 years for the (expensive) <br>business-line (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, etc), and 2 years for the <br>(cheap) "consumers" line. They stick to this scheme pretty well. <br> <br>Cheers <br> <br>Peter <div class="CommentReplyButton"> <form action="/Articles/89897/comment" method="post"> <input type="submit" value="Reply to this comment"> </form> </div> <p> </details> </details> </div>  <div class="rightcol not-print"> <div id="azk93271_right_zone"></div> </div> </div>  <br clear="all"> <center> <P> <span class="ReallySmall"> Copyright © 2004, Eklektix, Inc.<BR> Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.<br> Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds<br> </span> </center> </body></html>

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