Operating Systems Lifecycle Support

This post provides links to check the Support Lifecycle, End of Life (EoL), End of Support (EoS), versioning or road map dates for popular operating systems.

List of Links to Operating System Lifecycle Support

OSs featured on this post:

  • Windows
  • CentOS
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Oracle Linux
  • SUSE
  • HP-UX
  • IBM HCM
  • IBM i
  • Google Android

Windows

Microsoft has created a web where user introduces the Windows product and it displays the dates for end of support.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/

Also, Microsoft keeps this post updated with lifecycles dates for some Windows products:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

Official link

CentOS

Official link

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Official link

Oracle Linux

There is a PDF with this info on this external link.

SUSE

Official link

Ubuntu

Official link

HP-UX

Official link

IBM HCM

Official link

IBM i

Official link

Google Android

Apparently Android does not have an official registry of lifecycle, EoL or EoS. Instead, it just stops releasing updates for that version whenever Google considers, as explained on this external link,

As an average, Google provides support 3 years after the initial release, but sometimes is shorter.

You can check the release date and the maintenance status at Wikipedia on this external link.

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