Much to the dismay of many Fedora users, as of Dec 12 2006, the FedoraLegacy project closed up shop and is no longer offering updates for versions of Fedora Core that had reached the end of their product life cycles (aka been EOL'd). The Fedora project has also increased the length of product life cycles from 9 months to 13 months. So for FC users that will mean you will need to reinstall at least ever other Fedora release. With all this happening, I figured this would be a good time to remind everyone to make sure that your systems are currently supported by your linux vendor or are receiving security updates some other way. If you haven't bothered to update your system or configure automatic updates, then this is a good time to start.
Fedora Core
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commun...ra-EOL-Support
Redhat
Unsupported: Redhat Linux (RHL, not RHEL)
Note that RHEL life cycles are 7 years, so RHEL2.1 will be maintained through May 31 2009
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/eol/
Mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/en/mandriva-...ifetime-policy
Ubuntu:
Note:Standard releases are supported for 18 months. Enterprise grades (LTS) are supported for 3 years on desktop 5 years on server
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
SUSE/openSUSE
openSUSE Life Cycles
Commercial SuSE Distributions
For those distros not listed, please take a minute and check with your vendors website. Remember that keeping your system updated with security patches is one of the most effective measures you can take to keep from getting compromised.
