Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" was initially released back in July 2013 and it was alive for a year and a half. Now, the distribution has reached end of file and it's no longer supported by its developers.

Fedora 19 had quite an interesting code name, Schrödinger's Cat, and that makes the story about this OS reaching end of life all the more funny. In any case, the Fedora developers have decided to pull the plug on this old version and it will no longer get security updates.

This doesn't mean that you can no longer use this Linux distro or that you can't install it any longer, just that no more security updates will be made available from now on. Users have been advised to move on to a newer edition that is still supported. Right now there are two different editions that fit the bill, Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" and Fedora 21. The latter one is only a month old.

Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" is now officially dead

EOL (end of life) procedures are pretty normal and they are necessary for all operating systems that have regular release dates. The same happens for Linux Mint or Ubuntu, but distros like Arch Linux don't have this issue because they follow a rolling release model.

"As of 6th of January 2014, Fedora 19 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 19. A previous reminder was sent on December 10th. Fedora 20 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 22," reads the official announcement.

As usual, it's possible to upgrade to any of the later Fedora versions, but you can also download the latest Fedora 21 right now from Softpedia. It's easy to install and it's not a big jump in terms of hardware requirements.