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>This collection of software will remain locked at its specific version throughout the lifespan of that Enterprise Linux distribution release – which is often 10 years or more. Is this 10 year assumption true? Are people running 10 year old versions of operating systems today in non-safety or non-high security aspects? 10 years ago today is when the following were roughly released: - Linux 3.8. - RHEL 6.4 with Linux 2.6.32-358 - RHEL 7 was Beta with Linux 3.10.0 Are these still alive out there?

retzkek 3y ago
Absolutely. RHEL 7 (and downstreams) has maintenance support for another year, so there are many systems that administrators and now looking at upgrading. Speculatively, Red Hat timed the source availability change strategically to coincide with this epoch and force these administrators into a tight spot and hopefully get more subscriptions. Should these systems have been upgraded sooner? One year has usually allowed plenty of time for testing and rollout of the next major release.
- tmottabr 3y ago
  And after that there is still Extended Support. RHEL 6 is still under extended support until next year.
axus 3y ago
They want to install security patches, and not change anything else. 8 years ago was Red Hat 6.7 and 7.0. Windows Server 2012 R2 and 8.1 were 10 years ago.
dogline 3y ago
Yes, these are very much alive deep in corporate data centers, and we've got to work with them.
tmottabr 3y ago
Yes it is.. I have customers that are still on RHEL 6 today and are only migrating to RHEL 7 because they were forced to..
bandrami 3y ago
RHEL 7 is absolutely in use today, and 6 is still lurking in some corners.
diffeomorphism 3y ago
Sure, windows advertises 10 years for enterprise: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/the-next-windows-10-long-term-servicing-channel-ltsc-release/ba-p/2147232 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/t... Though for newer releases they partially reduced it to 5 years.

retzkek 3y ago

Absolutely. RHEL 7 (and downstreams) has maintenance support for another year, so there are many systems that administrators and now looking at upgrading. Speculatively, Red Hat timed the source availability change strategically to coincide with this epoch and force these administrators into a tight spot and hopefully get more subscriptions. Should these systems have been upgraded sooner? One year has usually allowed plenty of time for testing and rollout of the next major release.

tmottabr 3y ago
And after that there is still Extended Support. RHEL 6 is still under extended support until next year.

axus 3y ago

They want to install security patches, and not change anything else. 8 years ago was Red Hat 6.7 and 7.0. Windows Server 2012 R2 and 8.1 were 10 years ago.

dogline 3y ago

Yes, these are very much alive deep in corporate data centers, and we've got to work with them.

tmottabr 3y ago

Yes it is.. I have customers that are still on RHEL 6 today and are only migrating to RHEL 7 because they were forced to..

bandrami 3y ago

RHEL 7 is absolutely in use today, and 6 is still lurking in some corners.

diffeomorphism 3y ago

Sure, windows advertises 10 years for enterprise: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/the-next-windows-10-long-term-servicing-channel-ltsc-release/ba-p/2147232 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/t... Though for newer releases they partially reduced it to 5 years.