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NewsForge: Red Hat Tells Customers, ‘No More Freebies!”

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 3, 2003

“This e-mail provides you with important information about the
upcoming discontinuation of Red Hat Linux, and resources to assist
you with your migration to another Red Hat solution.

“As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue
maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and
8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance
and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red
Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux
line…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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