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.

openSUSE Products

The lifetime of the openSUSE product (also formerly known as SUSE Linux OSS or 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 opensuse-security-announce and opensuse-announce mailing lists some time before.

openSUSE lifetime as projected 18 march 2009

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 31st 2008 (done)
• openSUSE 10.2 - November 30th 2008 (done)
• openSUSE 10.3 - October 31st 2009 (current projection)
• openSUSE 11.0 - June 30th 2010 (current projection)
• openSUSE 11.1 - December 31st 2010 (current projection)

Users running a (soon-to-be) discontinued version of openSUSE should plan to upgrade their systems to a supported release to receive security updates and community support. Also eventually package repositories for discontinued releases will be removed from download servers as well as the build target list of the Build Service and it will be increasingly difficult to install new software.