Jean-Daniel Dodin wrote:
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?
Sure I do, and why not? Server hardware does not change as often as desktop ditto. I ran most of the test-versions of 11.3 (and 10.x for that matter) on a Compaq test-server from around 2000. When I reported an issue in the PCI hotplug code, it was also attended to right away.
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
Amount of RAM is not directly related to the age of a server (or desktop). My three year old workstation has 4Gb of memory, but my ten year old server has 8Gb.
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)
I think the really important thing is to accurately define what we mean when we say "support". For instance, does "not supported" equal "will not work"? As we know, no it doesn't, nor does it mean that a bug reported on old hardware will not be looked at. IMHO, it's perfectly acceptable to adjust the minimum requirements, but that is not the same as explicitly excluding "support" for hardware from before 200x. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org