Discontinued SUSE Linux Distribution: 8.2
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Wed Jun 29 17:00:00 MEST 2005
Dear suse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE LINUX users,
With the release of the SUSE Linux 9.3 FTP edition this week, SUSE Security
announces that the SUSE Linux 8.2 version of our home user product will
be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for more
than two years, vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux 8.2 after
July 14th 2005 will not be fixed any more for this product.
As a consequence, the SUSE Linux 8.2 distribution directory on our ftp
server ftp.suse.com has been moved from /pub/suse/i386/8.2/ to the
/pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space on our
mirror sites for the SUSE Linux 9.3 FTP edition; the 8.2 directory in the
update tree /pub/suse/i386/update/8.2 will follow later in July
2005, as soon as all updates have been published.
The discontinuation of SUSE Linux 8.2 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 8.2 only. As usual, SUSE will
continue to provide update packages for the following home users
distributions:
SUSE LINUX 9.0
SUSE LINUX 9.1
SUSE LINUX 9.2
and
SUSE LINUX 9.3
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.novell.com/linux/suse/.
If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do
not hesitate to contact SUSE Security at
Hi, On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:19:55 +0200 (MEST) Roman Drahtmueller <.> wrote: <...>
With the release of the SUSE Linux 9.3 FTP edition this week, SUSE Security announces that the SUSE Linux 8.2 version of our home user product will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for more than two years, vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux 8.2 after July 14th 2005 will not be fixed any more for this product.
My personal opinion is, that please don't stop to support 8.2, _before_ a mozilla update comes out! (Please note, that this 'early' version of SUSE does not have any FireBird / FireFox...) It was a while ago the last youpdate happened for mozilla (January 2005) and I think closing the support now would just ignore the importance of this particular package(s). Yeah, I know, that the two years of official support are in fact already gone weeks/months ago, but I'm confident, that skipping e.g. this update for that (already) not-supported version of mozilla 1.4x wouldn't solve your problem for example concerning SUSE 9.0. Because that release having also this outdated mozilla variant AND supported still for about a half year. If you fix it once for 9.0, why not to do it for 8.2 as well? Please, if you can do something for it, the fixed mozilla-related packages would give a fair end for the long period you excellently supported version 8.2. Best regards, Balazs MELIKANT
pelibali wrote
If you fix it once for 9.0, why not to do it for 8.2 as well? Please, if you can do something for it, the fixed mozilla-related packages would give a fair end for the long period you excellently supported version 8.2.
Just download it from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.7.8/8.2-i386/ It's been there for ages :-) -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *
Hi, On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:26:30 +0200 Frank Steiner <.> wrote:
pelibali wrote
If you fix it once for 9.0, why not to do it for 8.2 as well? Please, if you can do something for it, the fixed mozilla-related packages would give a fair end for the long period you excellently supported version 8.2.
Just download it from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.7.8/8.2-i386/ It's been there for ages :-)
Thanks, but I mentioned the 100% official way through the YOU update channels. Maybe you are right and something similar, with higher version-numbers could be released much more easily. By they way, have you ever tried to install the above stuff? With the above folder I had never luck on my 8.2s... Pelibali
pelibali wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:26:30 +0200 Frank Steiner <.> wrote:
pelibali wrote
If you fix it once for 9.0, why not to do it for 8.2 as well? Please, if you can do something for it, the fixed mozilla-related packages would give a fair end for the long period you excellently supported version 8.2.
Just download it from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.7.8/8.2-i386/ It's been there for ages :-)
Thanks, but I mentioned the 100% official way through the YOU update channels. Maybe you are right and something similar, with higher version-numbers could be released much more easily.
By they way, have you ever tried to install the above stuff? With the above folder I had never luck on my 8.2s...
I think, since some time the binary-mozilla releases from mozilla.org don't work under SLES8 anymore either (missing/too old gtk or something like this). I don't have a 8.2 anymore. Rainer
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:17:13AM +0200, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:26:30 +0200 Frank Steiner <.> wrote:
pelibali wrote
If you fix it once for 9.0, why not to do it for 8.2 as well? Please, if you can do something for it, the fixed mozilla-related packages would give a fair end for the long period you excellently supported version 8.2.
Just download it from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.7.8/8.2-i386/ It's been there for ages :-)
Thanks, but I mentioned the 100% official way through the YOU update channels. Maybe you are right and something similar, with higher version-numbers could be released much more easily.
By they way, have you ever tried to install the above stuff? With the above folder I had never luck on my 8.2s...
We are planning on a mozilla version upgrade for older products, but don't hold your breath please. Ciao, Marcus
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:36:44 +0200 Marcus Meissner <.> wrote:
We are planning on a mozilla version upgrade for older products, but don't hold your breath please.
Thanks, great news:) Independently of this scheduled update I plan to keep my 8.2 boxes, because I personally liked very much that parti- cular release. My family, previously proved to be 100% win* incompa- tible (tons of worms, viruses and various other issues) is still happily using them. Regards, Pelibali
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:40:41PM +0200, pelibali wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:36:44 +0200 Marcus Meissner <.> wrote:
We are planning on a mozilla version upgrade for older products, but don't hold your breath please.
Thanks, great news:) Independently of this scheduled update I plan to keep my 8.2 boxes, because I personally liked very much that parti- cular release.
So did I, but a few weeks ago I installed 9.2 on two machines and haven't looked back. 9.2 is an excellent release, and I thoroughly recommend it. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
participants (6)
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Anthony Edwards
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Frank Steiner
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Marcus Meissner
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pelibali
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Rainer Duffner
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Roman Drahtmueller