On Wednesday 2010-08-18 11:02, Jean-Daniel Dodin wrote:
* state clearly that we wont support hardware configs more than 5 (or 7) years old (of course teams can work on other versions) - say PIV, 256Mo ram, 20Gb HDD
With such a statement, you have quite accurately ruled out a lot of server installations.
do you expect more than 7 years old servers to install the very last distro?
Absolutely. Let me remind you, 7 years, that's 2003ish, that's the MHz wars, that's AMD Athlon XP-ish. And it runs 11.2. So yes, I damn expect it. Yes it was originally shipped with 256MB (and 512 for hardcore gamers) back then, but upgraded to 1G since I am heavily working with linux and git, where cache is good. Needless to say even with 256MB it runs. Unless you try to run kde and candybars, that is enough for ye basic home-server-in-a-cellar.
it's already very difficult to install 11.3 on 256Mb ram computers, I don't expect to be able to do so with 11.4
but in fact the years number don't really matters, what matters is to say when we leave a hardware out. Supporting very old hardawre is not that easy (and the kernel already let alone some, including SCSI stuff - and always did)
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