SUSE Linux Lifetime

From openSUSE

SUSE Linux Enterprise products

The lifetime of the Enterprise products is listed on the authorative novell.com page.

Customers are able to receive support, security and maintenance updates for these products, see the Novell Lifecycle page for full details.

SUSE Linux Retail / openSUSE Products

The lifetime of the SUSE Linux retail product (also known as SUSE Linux OSS, or former SUSE Linux Professional/Personal) is not defined by above pages, since it is not supported by Novell Technical Services (it is however supported by other support means).

During its lifetime of currently 2 years you will receive:

• security updates for all included packages
• critical bugfix updates (usually these are found & fixed in the first few months of its lifetime)

A discontinuation announcement will be sent to the suse-security-announce and opensuse-announce mailing lists some time before.

Currently predicted end of life:

• SUSE Linux 9.1 - June 30th 2006 (done)
• SUSE Linux 9.2 - October 31st 2006 (done)
• SUSE Linux 9.3 - April 30th 2007(done)
• SUSE Linux 10.0 - November 30st 2007 (done)
• SUSE Linux 10.1 - May 30th 2008 (advance notice)
• openSUSE 10.2 - November 30th 2008 (current projection)
• openSUSE 10.3 - October 31st 2009 (current projection)