XPost: linux.debian.devel.release 
 From: waldi@debian.org 
  
 On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 05:38:57PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: 
 > It would be more reasonable to count 7 years since mass sales or wide 
 > availability ends as hardware typically lasts 5 to 7 years in production 
 > environment. 
  
 z14 was end of life/sale in 2021 and will be end of service in 2026. 
 power8 must have been end of life/sale in 2019 and is end of service in 
 2024. 
 he latest niche x86-64-v1 cpu was introduced in 2015, and i doubt it 
 was produced for more then five years. 
  
 So not much change, just different numbers. 
  
 Bastian 
  
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