On 11/10/2012 02:01 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
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.
Kevin manufactures today don't built hardware to last more then 3 years
tops and actually the industry is moving towards to make them unfixable
as well
( cheaper to jus throw it away and give you a new one )
I think Germany is actually the only country that holds high standards
in that regards
( as in requiring manufactures to build appliance that lasts )
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 You seem to be failing to realize we have gone full circle now ;)
( think arm devices )
JBG
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