[rwmj]

Red Hat does "hardware enablement" for newer chipsets in older versions of RHEL, by backporting the necessary changes to the older kernel.

However your point is still correct: RHEL 6 which will support these new chips was released a year after Windows 7. RHEL 5, released two years before Win7 is no longer getting hardware enablement, only security fixes and other critical stuff.

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata

[Sylos]

> However your point is still correct: RHEL 6 which will support these new chips was released a year after Windows 7. RHEL 5, released two years before Win7 is no longer getting hardware enablement, only security fixes and other critical stuff.

How does that make his point correct? There's still Windows 8, which neither gets support, and which was released two years after RHEL 6.

Windows 8.1 was technically also its own version and released 3 years after RHEL 6, but I'd even be okay with ignoring that one.

[chungy]

Whether or not you want to ignore it, Windows 8.1 is still in the full mainstream support phase until January 2018. This is the equivalent of Red Hat's hardware enablement phase, and totally ridiculous that _at least_ that version is not getting support for the newer hardware platforms.