Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 May 2004 15:03, Rob Freeman wrote:
> I am sure this is an easy question, but I can not find the answer on the
> suse website.  If someone purchases suse 9.1 pro, how long are the updates
> available to them?  Or is this like RH now where you have to keep
> purchasing updates every year?

They are still maintaining updates, if we mean security patches and things 
like KDE, for SuSE 8.0, which came out around 2.5 years ago (?), but I think 
it probably will get pushed off the back of the stack when 9.2 appears.  So I 
suppose if things continue then 9.1 can still expect to be supported until 
around the end of 2006.  Lots of people can now tell me that I'm wrong about 
this and how ... but that service has always been free of charge.  I've not 
heard that they are planning to change that.

If we mean getting 9.2, 10, or what-have-you then you're either buying the new 
version or downloading it over ftp.
Cheers
Fergus
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob

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