On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM Chuck Payne <terrorpup@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't agree. One of the selling point of openSUSE/SUSE is that it
> supports a lot of older hardware.
>

I do not know how and to whom you sell the openSUSE, but server
vendors most certainly stop qualifying their end-of-sale hardware for
the new SLES releases, so you have no supported way to deploy new SLES
versions on the old hardware.

> On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM Lubos Kocman via openSUSE Factory
> <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello openSUSE!
> >
> > SUSE is evaluating drop of Legacy boot support, please let us know if
> > you foresee any issues. Please be aware that SLES 16 / Leap 16 support
> > requires x86_64-v2 so I personally believe that there won't be many
> > cases where such a system would not support UEFI.
> >
> > I was a bit concerned about virt scenarios,  we should ensure that
> > uefi is the default for new VMs as it seems to be legacy boot now.
> >
> > If you have any concerns, please share them in code-o-o
> > https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/194
> >
> > I'll make sure that product management gets to see it.
> > All feedback is highly welcome.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance
> >
> > --
> > Best regards
> >
> >
> > Luboš Kocman
> > openSUSE Leap Release Manager
>
>
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