Red Hat's life cycle for their distributions used to be 7 years, in 2010 they extended this to 7 years standard support + 3 years extended life cycle support (bug & security fixes only). They have now decided to give 10 years of standard support for Red Hat 5 & Red Hat 6. This is good news for users of free Red Hat source builds such as Scientific Linux & CentOS which will follow suit. This means that CentOS 5 & CentOS 6 will have full update support until 31/03/2017 & 30/11/2010 respectively.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/red-hat-extends-linux-support.html">http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/red-hat-extends-linux-support.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Gordon</div>