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Changes to Platform Support on Unix SWW

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The following changes to platform support are going to happen on the UNIX SWW:

  1. Solaris 7 SWW will be removed on January 31, 2006.
  2. RedHat 7.2 SWW will be removed on January 31, 2006. This does NOT affect the Linux SWW (commercial/Licensed software only).
  3. Solaris 8 SWW is in a security-only mode. Only security updates will be applied to it. Solaris 8 SWW will be frozen (no more updates) on June 13, 2006.
  4. Solaris 9 SWW is the new active Solaris SWW.
  5. Solaris 10 SWW is available.

Notes:

  1. The Solaris SWW platforms mentioned above include both SPARCv9 and ia32 versions.
  2. Another announcement will go out shortly with info on the SWW layout.