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. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org