Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jdd wrote:

> 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

Which is certainly true.

> 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.

My experience is quite the opposite.  So far I have only had minor
issues in running openSUSE 10 and 11 on older HP Proliants (up to 10
years).

> Why Change distro on old hardware?

It doesn't have to be a change, it could be a new install.  The other
day I bought 10 second-hand HP Proliants all from around 2004-2005. 

> 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...

Really only because openSUSE is built for i586 - otherwise there is no
problem. 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (18.9°C)

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