LWN: End of Support for SUSE 8.0

"...[H]aving provided security-relevant fixes for version 8.0 of our home user product, SUSE Linux, for two years, we would like to inform you that SUSE Linux 8.0 will be discontinued for all architectures. Vulnerabilities found after June 30th 2004 will not be fixed any more for SUSE Linux 8.0.

"By consequence, the SUSE Linux 8.0 distribution directories on our ftp server ftp.suse.com will be moved to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space after the recent availability of the new SUSE LINUX 9.1 ftp version..."

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