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[jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 18/08/2010 11:27, Per Jessen a écrit :

> 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. 
The strategy discussion was started assuming we don't have the
ressources to do all and every thing

My feeling is than we have to leave alone some old hardware. I know
there are many on the wild (I just use a at least 5 years old
computer), but these are usually very difficult to use with recent
distro and, by the way, don't need them.

Why Change distro on old hardware?

That's said, it's true on desktop/server (that is all but laptop) it's
not easy to give a date, given many component can be changed anytime.

So it's Ok to speak about power. For example, it's pretty difficult to
run modern distro on 486...

How can we do? Hardware is only supported if somebody in the community
willing to fix have one to test :-(

jdd


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