RHSA-2008:0521
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2008-06-03 07:05
Modified
2025-09-25 11:37
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - 1-Year End Of Life Notice

Notes

Topic
This is the 1-year notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
Details
In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the 7 year life-cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 will end on May 31, 2009. After this date, Red Hat will discontinue the technical support services, bug fix, 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 still running production workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 are advised to begin planning the upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Active subscribers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux already have access to all currently maintained versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as part of their subscription. Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life-cycle can be found on the Red Hat website: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
Terms of Use
This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.


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