The Debian developers have announced that they have decided to extend the support period for the Debian 6 ???Squeeze??? branch until February 2016. Normally, the support for this Debian branch should have ended on May 31. Just like with any other distro, the developers would stop pushing patches and users would need to move on. It’s not like people couldn’t use it, but it wouldn’t be as safe.
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