A reminder of EOL for F8

Bryn M. Reeves bmr at redhat.com
Tue Jan 6 11:16:42 UTC 2009


Chris Snook wrote:
> David wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> >From last I heard Wednesday, Jan 7 is EOL for F8. So be warned.
>>
>>
>> In all honesty...  EOL means End Of Line... Which means no more bugfix
>> updates and no more security patches.
>>
>> It does *not* mean that fedora 8 will stop working on January 7th, 2009.
>>
>> ;-)
>>
> 
> Do the F8 repos disappear on Jan 7th as well?  I'd hate to be the admin 
> who doesn't notice until Jan. 8th, and needs some tool that's not 
> installed in order to migrate gracefully.
> 
> -- Chris
> 

AFAIK, no (at least, that's not been the case in the past to my 
recollection).

Regards,
Bryn.




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