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@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ Support is divided into three tiers:
 
 ### Supported platforms
 
+The community does not build or test against end of life distributions (EoL).
+Thus we do not recommend that you use Node on end of life or unsupported platforms
+in production.
+
 |  System      | Support type | Version                          | Architectures        | Notes            |
 |--------------|--------------|----------------------------------|----------------------|------------------|
 | GNU/Linux    | Tier 1       | kernel >= 2.6.32, glibc >= 2.12  | x86, x64, arm, arm64 |                  |