On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 02:49 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > You're being pretty absurd comparing 2003 requirements to 2012 > > requirements without allowing at all for hardware inflation. > > People thinking like you are the reason why entire villages in China and > Africa are huge heavily-polluted landfills of electronic scrap material. That's so stupid it barely merits a response. But I'll humour you. We improve the ability of our hardware so we can improve the ability of our software. When designing modern software it does not make sense to design to the capabilities of a Commodore PET. A PC from nine years ago really is not a terribly different case. We are not designing an OS to be used to extend the life of ancient hardware for re-use in the developing world. That is a fine goal, but it is not really Fedora's goal. Our goal includes Features and First - i.e. we are pushing the envelope of what is possible. In doing this it is clearly appropriate to target the capabilities of contemporary hardware, not hardware built before George W. Bush's second term in office began. Modern software does not use more resources than old software because it's 'bloated' or because modern coders are lazy. It just uses the greater resources available to do better stuff. This is why hardware engineers work to make more resources available in the _first_ place. We could now list all the capabilities of modern code that code from 2003 didn't have, but I really, really don't see the point. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
