[Dextrose] yum error on xo-1.75 (dx build)

Bernie Innocenti bernie at sugarlabs.org
Wed Feb 22 20:47:38 EST 2012


On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 16:16 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Ariel Calzada <ariel.calzada at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Sorry Berny can you explain me the term "end of lifed" ?
> >
> > AFC
> 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_%28product%29
> 
> It is a technical term used in "product life cycle management" meaning
> a product (operating system version in this case)  is no longer going
> to get any effort or resources from it's maintainers. In this case it
> signifies tha all effort is going into newer versions and no one cares
> about older versions anymore.

Or, as Mary Lou Jepsen would put it, "it's just another word for death"

-- 
Bernie Innocenti
Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
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