This includes the operating system.
Effective October 1st, 2013, our policy for supported operating systems will be to cease support on them 1 year after that OS has reached end-of-life by it's creator.
Below is a list of the end-of-life dates for a given OS.
To it's right will be the date will be the date that we will no longer be supporting that OS.
OS Name : OS EOL -> DA EOL
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CentOS 4 : February 2012 -> October 2013
CentOS 5 : March 2017 -> March 2018
CentOS 6 : November 2020 -> November 2021
Fedora 7 : June 2008 -> October 2013
Fedora 8 : January 2009 -> October 2013
FreeBSD 5 : May 2008 -> October 2013
FreeBSD 6 : November 2010 -> October 2013
FreeBSD 7 : February 2013 -> February 2014
FreeBSD 8 : April 2014 -> April 2015
Debian 4 : February 2010 -> October 2013
Debian 5 : February 2012 -> October 2013
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