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yuhong on April 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020

> which AFAIK depending on how much you pay them they support for 13 years

10 years actually. This is a common misconception from those who do not read the lifecycle page carefully.

claudex on April 14, 2014 [–]

It's 13 years with the Extended Life Phase and the Extended Life Cycle Support subscription which provide security fixes https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata...

yuhong on April 15, 2014 | [–]

Except ELS applies only to RHEL3/4 (which gets only 7 years of support otherwise) and also covers a limited amount of packages.

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