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meta: clarify EoL platform support #25838

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Expand Up @@ -69,9 +69,12 @@ There are three support tiers:

### Supported platforms

The community does not build or test against end-of-life distributions (EoL).
For production applications, run Node.js on supported platforms only.

End-of-life (EoL) platforms are not supported even if listed below and can be
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End-of-life (EoL) platforms are not supported even if listed below and can be
End-of-life (EoL) platforms are not supported, even if listed below, and can be

removed at any moment. The community does not build or test against EoL
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I'd be slightly concerned that this could be read as that we "can't" even if it's what we think need to be the case for some period of time. How about "The community avoids building or testing against EoL platforms"

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removed at any moment. The community does not build or test against EoL
removed at any time. The community does not build or test against EoL

platforms.

| System | Support type | Version | Architectures | Notes |
| ------------ | ------------ | ------------------------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------- |
| GNU/Linux | Tier 1 | kernel >= 2.6.32, glibc >= 2.12 | x64, arm | |
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