fedora support info ?

[imT]

for how long a release it's supported; also for how long fedora 8 will get updates ?

[Antman]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle

In practice, Fedora releases a new version about every 6 months, which means than each version of Fedora remains supported for about 13 months. This allows users to "skip a release" while still being able to always have a system that is under maintenance.