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diff --git a/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst b/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst | |
index 4bff01f..b6a2de7 100644 | |
--- a/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst | |
+++ b/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst | |
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ software that is a decade old, and which its maintainers want nothing to do | |
with. This post isn't about whether maintaining old software is a good or a bad | |
idea. It's about the effect it has on the community. | |
-The Python core developers have ceased providing *any* support for Python 2.6 as | |
-of October 2013, but Red Hat will continue to support it in RHEL 5, until 2020. | |
+The Python core developers have ceased providing *any* support for Python 2.6 | |
+as of October 2013, but Red Hat will continue to support it in RHEL 5, until | |
+2020. (RHEL 5 actually comes with Python 2.4, which was last updated in 2008, | |
+but you can get Python 2.6 via EPEL). | |
Many Python projects (such as Django, Twisted, and PyCA Cryptography) are | |
therefore looking to drop 2.6 support, to lighten their maintenance burden and |
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