Hello Frans you are correct, the scope for change is Leap 16 / SLES 16 and not Tumbleweed, where we still support i586. Lubos On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM Frans de Boer <frans@fransdb.nl> wrote:
SLES is to my knowledge used by Enterprises and as base for LEAP. So, may I assume that TW is spared from this idea?
If not, then I too disagree. My system is used for video editing and system builds and is still fast enough. It features an AMD Phenom2 965 (x86_64-v1) processor. The system BIOS has no UEFI. Another system has UEFI, but I switched back to BIOS boot due to issues of booting from CD/DVD's.
I hope that openSUSE TW does not follow the MS-way of unnecessary forcing users to buy new hardware where the old is still perfectly viable. I don't use Windows anymore and rely(ed) solely on openSUSE for all my past and current systems.
Regards, Frans de Boer.
On 14/02/2025 13:42, Chuck Payne wrote:
I don't agree. One of the selling point of openSUSE/SUSE is that it supports a lot of older 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
-- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager