Friday, January 13, 2012

One month advance notification for upcoming end-of-life for Debian 5.0 Lenny

 One month advance notification for upcoming end-of-life for Debian 5.0 Lenny

The Debian project has announced in a security advisory (DSA-2360-1) that the security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” will be terminated in february 2012 :

This is an advance notice that security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
(code name "lenny") will be terminated in two months.

The Debian project released Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 alias "squeeze" on the
6th of February 2011. Users and distributors have been given a one-year
timeframe to upgrade the...