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RHEL 6 is going end of support in November 2020. RHEL 5 has been out of support for quite a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Produc

RHEL 6 is going end of support in November 2020. RHEL 5 has been out of support for quite a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Product_life_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Produ... Of course there are extended extended extended support programs for companies who are willing to pay. RHEL 5 is unusable at this point in time. It can't even run a HTTPS request to other systems because it's doesn't support TLS. It can't compile any software because it's stuck on gcc from more than 10 years ago. My company is upgrading the last machines from RHEL 6 and they're causing quite a bit of issues due to all the packages and operating systems being obsolete. It's reaching a point where it's less trouble to upgrade than to keep running. I can't imagine people still running on RHEL 5 willingly, they must be stuck running old software whom source code was lost.

rwmj 6y ago
RHEL 5 ELS ends Nov 30th 2020 (source: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/690063 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/690063). I agree on your other points though, but for some customers they still want to run RHEL 5 and it may not be a priority for them to do TLS requests or run GCC on new software - if they haven't been doing that on RHEL 5 up til now, why would they start? They often have some old database or bit of software that keep chugging along and would cost money to replicate or replace. We even offer a way to virtualize RHEL 5 servers so you can keep them running on "new" (virtual) hardware. (http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html)
- user5994461 6y ago
  Systems have to continue to run and to interface with other systems (that shift over time). There isn't an option to never do a HTTPS request or never compile anything. Should clarify that the end-of-life schedule is coinciding for many platforms: RHEL 5 and RHEL 6, java 7 + 8, windows server 2008 + 2012, python 2. I don't think it's possible for RHEL 5 upgrade to not be an emergency priority at this stage. It's not able to run or to communicate with much of anything else (all platforms dropping SSL is one issue for example). What is the company gonna do when they can't curl and ssh between systems anymore?

rwmj 6y ago

RHEL 5 ELS ends Nov 30th 2020 (source: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/690063 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/690063). I agree on your other points though, but for some customers they still want to run RHEL 5 and it may not be a priority for them to do TLS requests or run GCC on new software - if they haven't been doing that on RHEL 5 up til now, why would they start? They often have some old database or bit of software that keep chugging along and would cost money to replicate or replace. We even offer a way to virtualize RHEL 5 servers so you can keep them running on "new" (virtual) hardware. (http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html)

user5994461 6y ago
Systems have to continue to run and to interface with other systems (that shift over time). There isn't an option to never do a HTTPS request or never compile anything. Should clarify that the end-of-life schedule is coinciding for many platforms: RHEL 5 and RHEL 6, java 7 + 8, windows server 2008 + 2012, python 2. I don't think it's possible for RHEL 5 upgrade to not be an emergency priority at this stage. It's not able to run or to communicate with much of anything else (all platforms dropping SSL is one issue for example). What is the company gonna do when they can't curl and ssh between systems anymore?