http://www.osnews.com/story/25791/No_more_releases_for_Linux_2_4 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:31:55 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?513548 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513548 The move to stop releasing 2.4 updates seems reasonable. I don't think any distributions still support the 2.4 kernel. Even Red Hat's RHEL supported line I think uses 2.6 these days. If there is anyone out there still actively using 2.4 they're probably already familiar with compiling and updating legacy software. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jessesmith) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513555 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513555 It is now almost 10 years since 2.6.0 was released.
If anything, I am surprised that support for 2.4 wasn't stopped earlier. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Penguin) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513559 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513559 RHEL 4 (pretty old) is on 2.6.9. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (amadensor) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513576 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513576 Things like cable box and other "black boxes", hardware made by a manufacturer (pace, sci. atlanta), supported by another (cable company) and installed in yet another (private house or business) are a different story. There is still tons of OS/2 and early Linux (2.2, 2.4). You know, the kind of (sometime large) niches that recently stockpiled 80386 processors to be sure they would have enough of them for the next 30 years. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513578 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513578 RHEL 4 went EOL (technically End of Production according to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/) on February 29, 2012. It's now only receiving critical impact security fixes if you pay for a special Extended Life Cycle Support subscription above and beyond the normal RHEL subscription.

Both CentOS and Scientific Linux ended their 4.x lines on February 29. So, for all intents and purposes, RHEL 4 is publicly End Of Life. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PowerTrain) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513696 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513696 Christ. I remember building Linux 2.2.x in something like 2 minutes and 30 seconds on my overclocked 500? MHz dual Celeron system. I think 25 minutes is closer now, with a bazillion times faster quad core AMD. So that was before 2001. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (No it isnt) Comments