Dear suse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE LINUX
users,
having provided security-relevant fixes for version 7.3 of our
home user product, SuSE Linux, for two years, we would like to
inform you that SuSE Linux 7.3 will be discontinued for all
architectures. Vulnerabilities found after December 15th 2003 will
not be fixed any more for SuSE Linux 7.3.
By consequence, the SuSE Linux 7.3 distribution directories on
our ftp server ftp ftp.suse.com
will be moved to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree
structure; the 7.3 directories in the update trees will follow
later in January 2004.
The discontinuation of SuSE Linux 7.3 enables us to focus on the
SUSE LINUX distributions of a newer release date to ensure that our
customers can continuously take advantage of the quality that they
are used to with SUSE LINUX products.
This announcement holds true for SuSE Linux 7.3 only. As usual,
SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following
home users distributions:
SuSE Linux 8.0
SuSE Linux 8.1
SuSE Linux 8.2
and
SUSE LINUX 9.0
for a two-year period after the release of the respective
distribution.
Please note that the maintenance cycles of SUSE LINUX Enterprise
Server products and products based on the SUSE LINUX Enterprise
Server operating system are not affected by this announcement. To
learn more about SUSE LINUX business products, please visit
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/.
If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do
not hesitate to contact SUSE security at <<A
HREF=”mailto:security@suse.de”>security@suse.de>.
Best regards,
Roman Drahtmüller,
SUSE Security.