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End of Life of Technologies and Devices
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#42i read this literally, was going to look up some stuff for an ageing parent
I thought it would be about Sarco pods and exit bags.
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#43Creator here, happy to answer any questions about what it takes to build a collaborative Wiki for tracking support life cycles. You can support our work on GitHub Sponsors or https://opencollective.com/endoflife-date We recently crossed 8M impressions via Google Search this month: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/discussions...
Thanks for the site. It answered a question I had in the back of my mind, but hadn't found the time to look up. One suggestion I hope you can look into: the Java world is a lot bigger than just Oracle Java, with multiple implementations where End-of-Life greatly differs. If possible, people avoid Oracle Java. Look up OpenJDK, Eclipse Temurin, Azul, IBM Semeru. There are some more, but I have never used them.
Seconding this. As it stands, the Java page is only of very limited use.
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#44This nicely shows how insane the world is that we live in. There are many core pieces of technology on that site and almost all of them go EOL within 2 or 3 years. Anything that builds upon these pieces of technology will take some time to support the new version, so the time frame is actually even shorter.
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#45This nicely shows how insane the world is that we live in. There are many core pieces of technology on that site and almost all of them go EOL within 2 or 3 years. Anything that builds upon these pieces of technology will take some time to support the new version, so the time frame is actually even shorter.
Yea, some of these (e.g. PHP) have dozens of minor/bug fix releases which then just suddenly stop which just shows that you're vulnerable all the time... either because the release isn't "mature yet" or because it's "already eol" :)
Re: End of Life of Technologies and Devices
#46Creator here, happy to answer any questions about what it takes to build a collaborative Wiki for tracking support life cycles. You can support our work on GitHub Sponsors or https://opencollective.com/endoflife-date We recently crossed 8M impressions via Google Search this month: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/discussions...
Thanks for the site. It answered a question I had in the back of my mind, but hadn't found the time to look up. One suggestion I hope you can look into: the Java world is a lot bigger than just Oracle Java, with multiple implementations where End-of-Life greatly differs. If possible, people avoid Oracle Java. Look up OpenJDK, Eclipse Temurin, Azul, IBM Semeru. There are some more, but I have never used them.
Amazon Corretto 8 is widely used in the Finance industry for example
Re: End of Life of Technologies and Devices
#47Creator here, happy to answer any questions about what it takes to build a collaborative Wiki for tracking support life cycles. You can support our work on GitHub Sponsors or https://opencollective.com/endoflife-date We recently crossed 8M impressions via Google Search this month: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/discussions...
Great website, note that .NET doesn't show .NET Framework content, with latest being .NET Framework 4.8.1.
.NET Framework support is tied to Windows itself.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-GB/lifecycle/faq/dotnet-frame...
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#48I've recently updated the Lambda functions to Amazon Linux 2023, only to find that its standard support apparently expires earlier than that of the older Amazon Linux 2.
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#49Should be called The Planned Obsolescence Shaming Site.
In the 80s Ian Sommerville wrote about the "long tail" of maintenance accounting for >75% of the lifecycle costs of a program. I remember being surprised at this, but my SE prof saying "all successful projects tend toward 100% maintenance." If developers want to put a time limit on how long they're willing to maintain a project that's all fine and useful. Coders have lives to get back to and new interests to look for…
Sure, you can maintain it if you want. And they ought to give you the means to. But that’s a bad comparison.
I bought a perfect, will never deteriorate houseboat twenty years ago (it is now 2043) and moved it across the world. But now in the harbor of Hong Kong I won’t get a permit to stay there because there is (1) no onboard emergency manual in either Cantonese or Mandarin, and (2) it is not up to code for sustained quarantine due to the novel airborne virus that became a pandemic some years ago, and (3) there is no mounted non-lethal (because animal welfare) protection against a hull-eating[1] marina pest that migrated from the Equator ten years ago because of climate change.
Software obsolescence is all about the world changing around the software.
[1] The boat might be perfect but apparently creatures can still eat it if determined enough.
Re: End of Life of Technologies and Devices
#50Creator here, happy to answer any questions about what it takes to build a collaborative Wiki for tracking support life cycles. You can support our work on GitHub Sponsors or https://opencollective.com/endoflife-date We recently crossed 8M impressions via Google Search this month: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/discussions...
Great effort! As I’ve realized the folly of updating my phone every 2-3 years, have you considered a sign up to be notified that my device is reaching its end of life?