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Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by rorychatt » Thu, May 30, 2019, 12:15 AM UTC

It's a shame, BDNA's Technopedia used to have an excellent, free online search engine that could be leveraged to search EOL information.

For context, Technopedia is a library that, for a yearly subscription, could supplement detailed supplier End of Life/Support/Extended details onto your CMDB/Asset Management System. It was a godsend when dealing with large software audits.

Flexera have since acquired BDNA, and from the looks of things, the public access to the system has been locked out: https://portal.technopedia.com/landing

Might be worth checking out for those who are in large orgs and have to deal with this problem en mass.

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by JeremyNT » Thu, May 30, 2019, 8:43 PM UTC

craigds wrote: post #63

The Ubuntu page is a little confusing. The "security support" on that page appears to be "Extended Security Maintenance" which is available for kernel security updates, and only if you have a subscription to the Ubuntu Advantage. Normal security support is over for Ubuntu 14.04.

Agreed, for most users there's effectively no ongoing support for 14.04, which makes the way it appears in this table highly misleading. Based on this I wouldn't recommend this list.

For this kind of situation I would suggest marking the item in red with a footnote indicating that some limited support is still available.

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by philshem » Fri, May 31, 2019, 12:07 PM UTC

Nice concept. As a suggestion, I think a single page with #bookmarks would be more easily read than individual pages selected from the menu bar. But I’d be curious to hear the pros of the current design choice.

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