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Petition Asks Apple to Clarify Mac Pro Status

Lou Borella, a professional editor and graphic animator in the NYC area, is an avid Mac Pro user. Actually, he was an avid Mac Pro user, going by his lengthy letter to Apple which he posted on Facebook for the entire world to see. With 5,770 likes, it’s almost impossible someone at Apple hasn’t already h...

25 May 2012
05:55 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.4 Reaches End of Life

According to maintainer Willy Tarreau, the Linux kernel 2.4 branch has reached End of Life status, after a 15-month warning period. Linux kernel 2.4 branch was supposed to go EOL (End of Life) in December 2011, but the break-in from last year put those plans on hold. According to the maintainer, some users have a...

10 April 2012
05:47 GMT

Debian 5.0 Reaches End of Life

Developers from the Debian Team have announced that support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has been terminated on February 6. If users haven't yet switched the Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, this is a good time to do so. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny “ was launched three years ago and two years after ...

10 February 2012
10:06 GMT

Thunderbird 3.1.x To Reach EOL (End of Life) in April

Mozilla has announced that users of Thunderbird 3.1 have until April 24 to migrate to a newer version of the email client, since the old one will no longer be supported. All development will be halted at said date, which means that no security or performance fixes will be provided. Truth be told, Thunderbird 3.1.x i...

1 February 2012
10:16 GMT

openSUSE 11.3 Will Die on January 16th, 2012

Announced by the openSUSE project about seventeen months ago, the openSUSE 11.3 operating system will reach end of life (EOL) on January 16th, 2012.With regrets, the openSUSE developers, through Marcus Meissner, announced on November 30th that there will be no more updates coming for the openSUSE 11.3 Linux distribut...

2 December 2011
02:27 GMT

Kororaa 14 Is No Longer Supported

Chris Smart announced last evening, November 14th, that the Kororaa 14 operating system is no longer supported, and that the download links have been removed.Being based on the Fedora 14 operating system, this comes right after last week's announcement for Fedora 14 (Laughlin) End of Life (EOL), on December 8th,...

15 November 2011
07:35 GMT

Less than 900 Days Until Windows XP End of Life

Time is running out for Windows XP. There are now less than 900 days until Microsoft discontinues support for the decade-old operating system. More precisely, there are 893 days until the Redmond company pulls the plug on Windows Vista’s predecessor. In a sense, XP is already living on borrowed time, since ...

27 October 2011
12:01 GMT

1,000 Days until Windows XP End of Life

In 1,000 days Microsoft will pull the plug on the operating system which it released back in 2001 and that still dominates the OS market. The aging platform is already a decade old, almost, and will still pile up another three years, but come 2014, the Redmond company will discontinue all support for Windows XP. XP...

12 July 2011
02:22 GMT

Vista SP1 End of Life Next Week

Microsoft will pull the plug on the first upgrade to Windows Vista in approximately a week, per the company’s official Support Lifecycle for the release. The Redmond giant traditionally ends support for a service pack no more than two years after a superseding upgrade has been released. It is the case of Wind...

4 July 2011
02:43 GMT

Office XP Dies on July 11, 2011

After making Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 available for download to all users, Microsoft is gearing up to kill one of the productivity suite’s predecessors, Office XP. Per the software giant’s official support lifecycle, Office XP has less than 10 days of life left. The Redmond company confirmed th...

2 July 2011
06:51 GMT

Goodbye Ubuntu 9.10

Dear Ubuntu 9.10 users, the time has come to say goodbye to the Karmic Koala release of the popular Ubuntu operating system. One month from today, on April 29th, it reaches end of life (EOL).Almost 18 months ago, on the 29th of October, 2009, Canonical was proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 9.10, dubbed Karmic K...

29 March 2011
02:16 GMT

Goodbye openSUSE 11.2

Announced by the openSUSE project about seventeen months ago, the openSUSE 11.2 operating system will reach end of life (EOL) on May 12th, 2011.openSUSE 11.2 introduced features such as Linux kernel 2.6.31.5, EXT4 as the default filesystem, the GNOME 2.28.0 and KDE 4.3.1 desktop environments, X.Org 7.4, X.Org server ...

25 March 2011
09:04 GMT

Xperia X10 Reaches EOL at AT&T, Might Not Taste Android 2.1

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, the first mobile phone the Japanese-Swedish vendor brought to the market with Google's Android operating system on board, reportedly reached the end of life status on AT&T's network in the United States.The smartphone is still present on the wireless carrier's website on its ...

22 February 2011
13:32 GMT

Dell Kills the Adamo Notebook Line

It's always sad to see some iconic product reaching the end of life (in some cases, a lot sooner than normally expected), but this is exactly what's happened with Dell's Adamo line of notebooks, at some point seen as the only system capable of posing a threat to Apple's MacBook Air.Unfortunately, ...

9 February 2011
05:47 GMT

Palm Pre Discontinued at Sprint

Wireless carrier Sprint, the first operator to make the Palm Pre and its webOS platform available for purchase in the United States, has reportedly discontinued the device. As previously reported, the mobile phone carrier has already removed the Palm Pre from its website, and it appears that the company also marked ...

16 November 2010
13:41 GMT

Verizon to Kill Off DROID, Devour, Tour 9630

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is reportedly gearing up to phase out some of the handsets that proved highly popular among its users, including the high-end DROID by Motorola, or Research In Motion's BlackBerry Tour 9630. With the DROID X by Motorola launched on the operator's airwaves on Thursday, ...

16 July 2010
10:38 GMT

Goodbye Fedora 10

Fedora 10 was officially released a year ago, on November 25th, 2008. It was dubbed Cambridge and it offered the latest stable version of GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.1 desktop environments, faster boot experience (powered by Plymouth), better printing, better webcam support, improved wireless network connection sharing, bet...

19 December 2009
12:17 GMT

How Long IE6 Has to Live

Well, here's another anti-IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) article to go with the 254,000 I found on Google recently. While many of IE6's detractors are web designers or web developers, we can certainly put on the board some greater flaws in Microsoft's browser than the extra amount of working hours put by pr...

4 December 2009
11:08 GMT

Goodbye Linux Mint 4.0

Following the end-of-life announcement for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), Clement Lefebvre just announced a few minutes ago that Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) would no longer receive software updates and security/critical fixes, starting April 18th, 2009. Therefore, all Linux Mint 4.0 users are urged to migrate to the Linux M...

25 March 2009
07:44 GMT

Palm Pre Might Get Launched on March 15

According to the latest news on the Web, Palm's recently unveiled Pre handset might come to Sprint, the carrier that will have it exclusively at launch, come March. A recently leaked End of Life sheet from the mobile phone operator shows that Sprint expects to have the device in stock on March 15. At the same ti...

5 February 2009
04:47 GMT

The Werewolf Shall Not Die on Christmas

Codenamed "Werewolf," Fedora 8 was unleashed on the 8th of November, 2007 by Max Spevack (project leader at that time). Like every new Fedora release, the Werewolf brought new and exciting technologies (very popular at that point in time), such as the amazing PulseAudio sound server; the Codec Buddy, a magical utilit...

2 December 2008
07:17 GMT

Ubuntu 7.04 No Longer Supported

Launched almost a year and a half ago, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is now less than a month closer to its end. Since its release on April 19th 2007, Ubuntu has been committed to security and critical fixes but this is about to stop, as on Sunday, October 19th, Ubuntu 7.04 will reach its end of life. Therefore, neither ...

29 September 2008
03:16 GMT


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