-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-08-29 20:39, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 19:13:23 +0200,
I hope I don't need to remind you that testing something, and reporting issues will not magically make something work, nor will it create working distribution, packagers/maintainers/developers are necessary, and by burdening members of community with supporting legacy hardware we are risking them leaving project.
Seemingly many people are very afraid of the legacy hardware. With my kernel subsystem maintainer hut on, I'd say that it's an overreaction. Remember that the kernel still supports 20 years old devices, and we'll likely keep supporting for some more years. Why? Just because there are still users. The continuity wins over everything. Isn't it difficult? Yeah, sometimes, but the reported bugs also decrease at the same time, so don't worry too much :)
Notice that many of us that want a 32 bit system would be happy to continue using the same kernel. Why would we want to update that? The hardware is the same, no need to support new devices. It is the applications on top, specially those facing the network, that need updating (for security reasons). - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXiAewACgkQja8UbcUWM1y7kwD+J10KjCRXufN7tAutfShYD9vE 5fvmtPU2uONXoTEhCwUA/jMchfH3evKZiyLDDBNdNJPLi+9h/eQgI/uX4oqe3ld2 =4zUb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org