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Bug 639921

Summary:	Send Out RHEL 3 1-Month EOL Notice
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	redhat-release	Assignee:	Daniel Mach <dmach>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	3.9	CC:	dgregor, riek
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Description Mark J. Cox 2010-10-04 10:33:56 UTC

-- draft text below, needs approval before creating final packages

This is the End Of Life notification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the
regular 7 year life-cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 has ended.

Red Hat has discontinued the regular subscription services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Therefore, new bug fix, enhancement, and security errata updates, as well as technical support services are no longer be available for the following products:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras 3
* Red Hat Desktop 3
* Red Hat Global File System 3
* Red Hat Cluster Suite 3

Servers subscribed to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 channels on the Red Hat
Network will become unsubscribed. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription
model, those subscriptions can be used to entitle any system on any
currently supported release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

For customers who are unable to migrate off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Red Hat is offering a limited, optional extension program referred to as RHEL 3 ELS. For more information, contact your Red Hat sales representative or channel partner on this program. 

Once you are eligible for subscribing to the RHEL 3 ELS channels please read the Red Hat Knowledge Base article https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-40489 for detailed information on how to subscribe to the RHEL3 ELS channels.

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life-cycle can be found on the Red
Hat website: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Comment 3 Dennis Gregorovic 2010-11-24 22:04:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 644878 ***