Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> In this case that SIG would be created for no good reason since the
> outcome is inevitable.
I still do not see what is inevitable about the outcome. Keeping legacy, no
longer changing, interfaces working forever should require next to no
effort.
> For how long should fedora support any given hardware ( electric
> components do not last forever ) ?
Ideally, as long as there is at least one person still using it. In
practice, it probably requires more than one person, but the user base for
legacy BIOS is still large judging from the feedback in the thread.
> For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts
> available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense
> for the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of
> it's manufacturing. ( which makes the oldest hw being support being
> manufactured in 2012 ) and every process,workflows and decision being
> bound by that.
Lack of availability of original spare parts does not mean that the hardware
suddenly magically stops working for everybody.
> Is Fedora an distribution that does not revert but always transforms,
> rolls out and moves forward or is it an distribution that is stuck in
> the past ( from a software and hardware point of view )?
Running on both old and new hardware does not preclude in any way shipping
the most recent software. This is a false dichotomy.
Kevin Kofler
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