-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mon Jan 10 17:00:00 MET 2005 Dear suse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE LINUX users, With the release of the SUSE Linux 9.2 FTP edition today, SUSE Security announces that the SUSE Linux 8.1 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 8.1 after January 31st 2005 will not be fixed any more for this product. As a consequence, the SUSE Linux 8.1 distribution directories on our ftp server ftp.suse.com has been moved from /pub/suse/i386/8.1/ to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space on our mirror sites for the SUSE Linux 9.2 FTP edition; the 8.1 directory in the update tree /pub/suse/i386/update/8.1 will follow later in February/March 2005, as soon as all updates have been published. The discontinuation of SUSE Linux 8.1 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 8.1 only. As usual, SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following home users distributions: SUSE Linux 8.2 SUSE LINUX 9.0 SUSE LINUX 9.1 and SUSE LINUX 9.2 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 <security@suse.de>. Best regards, Roman Drahtmüller, SUSE Security. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQeKoDney5gA9JdPZAQEQfQf/QM3M20t/2gPxbnik7khaI4wlpahOTUeX IBcZa9cgMxSrTDRNuh9y6ziwmBU0AHD6O8CPKRUOfqiWE+yt8NuW+eMBu1qslXTo zxREZ9wi3UgXBHtQZRokT5/ZJ/skEHntoiFKh9WaF3H64kbKIk6/H8yTwykx5tPg Q2WsgQfmg/055ZALGN9AJSNBe2KBwdl3AYuqf8+BhRyCQ8wI41eIUFeZnDrfPGlE PtpnJuP6B6YZnv8FuGo/3X0C0LGtnJhbakW5L7VrFeU79FY9jQWN1GrK+y8CDdEi Ws5JZLwr+88/Fez8voprRHSZDcG0NOuHIMUqGMnOFSzKX2qakBdhUA== =knKM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----