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Re:Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 by matoro on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:41PM (#24923253)
Yes? RHEL 6 uses kernel 2.6 and RHEL 7 uses kernel 3.10. Both are actively maintained and supported.
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Re:Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 by tsimionescu on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:15PM (#24923620)
They are maintained and supported by RedHat, but you can't find for example AMD Radeon drivers for their latest generation for RHEL6 (though they do have them for RHEL 7.9).
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Re:Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 by kd913 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:17PM (#24923646)
Rhel 6 is moving to extended life phase in another month. At that point no bug fixes, security fixes, hardware enablement or root-cause analysis

I wouldn't say that is actively maintained or supported.

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Re:Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 by izacus on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:05PM (#24924138)
RHEL certanly isn't something that's maintained for free for everyone though. You pay a rather hefty fee for this kind of support.
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