30 Jan
2021
30 Jan
'21
10:34 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 09:06:47PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 07:41:27PM +0000, Roger Light
wrote:
In theory you could try to establish what levels of security support are
roughly equivalent in each distribution and pick a date for each distro
when that level is reached.
As that's impossible, I think the best attempt to be helpful to the
prospective customer is to describe as well as you can in a few words
what levels of support are available until which dates for each
distribution, even if it's as vague as "full: june 2021, partial: June
2023"
In special cases like the truncated EOL for Centos 8, you
can always include a warning and link for further explanation. Ideally all
distributions should have a page you can link to which explains their
security support policy, but I realize it may not be quite as easy as
that :-)
Anahata
My question would be - what is your aim in
putting the EOL date on
that page?
Just so that people can make a good informed decision when picking
which Linux distribution to order.
We get customers from time to time that pick older releases and
don't understand when they cease getting security support. There
have also been several new signups since December that picked CentOS
8 without realising its EOL was less than a year away.