For desktop-class hardware, the parts that are most likely to fail
around the decade mark are storage drives, power supplies, and perhaps
fans. All of these are fully standardized and in plentiful supply; there
is no reason that first-party hardware vendor support should be required
to keep old desktop systems in service.
Dropping support for old hardware in Fedora should always be based on
the costs and benefits, not on a rigid planned lifecycle.
– Ben
On 4/14/22 08:25, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
On 14.4.2022 11:42, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
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.
No but it does mean that they cant run indefinitely
And there needs to be a number on this to adjust users expectation and
10 years is a reasonable number from a business, parts and
recycle/re-use availability,
What is unreasonable is to be expecting that it's supported
indefinitely from OS and or HW vendors.
JBG
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