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[Jean-Daniel Dodin <jdd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 18/08/2010 10:51, Per Jessen a écrit :
> jdd wrote:
>
> > some ways we could:
> >
> > * state clearly that we wont support hardware configs more than 5 (or
> > 7) years old (of course teams can work on other versions) - say PIV,
> > 256Mo ram, 20Gb HDD
>
> With such a statement, you have quite accurately ruled out a lot of
> server installations.  
do you expect more than 7 years old servers to install the very last distro?

I have some of them, always running the same distro for 5 years now :-).

it's already very difficult to install 11.3 on 256Mb ram computers, I
don't expect to be able to do so with 11.4

but in fact the years number don't really matters, what matters is to
say when we leave a hardware out. Supporting very old hardawre is not
that easy (and the kernel already let alone some, including SCSI stuff -
and always did)

jdd

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