On Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:19:22 PM MST Martin Jackson wrote: > > 5-10 years? A better estimate would be 15-20 years. People aren't going > > to > > throw away perfectly fine systems and jump to new "cloud" platforms just > > because the OS they were using dropped BIOS support. They'll just stop > > updating, and likely move to something that is still supporting BIOS, if > > they don't write their own installer and just continue using Fedora, > > given that this is an entirely artificial limitation. > > > > > > While I completely hear you on the fact that people will often sweat > assets for years longer than accounting schedules suggest they should, > do you really think they're going to write custom installers??? I think > it's far more likely that they would move to other distros more amenable > to supporting the hardware they have. > > There are many distros that cater to this kind of market already, some > by design and some by inclination.?? I don't think we want to drive them > there. > > For what it's worth, I do not think that removing legacy BIOS support > from Fedora is the right thing to do.?? I don't see significant benefit, > and I see lots of potential harm. Considering that a custom installer for Fedora could just be a bash script that partitions disks, then runs `dnf`, then grub2-install.. It's not out of the question. I've considered it myself, so that I could install to root on ZFS without hacky kickstarts, for example. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
