Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> Trying to support that legacy scenario where certain hw may or may not
> work is a nightmare for developers, support teams and Fedora since
> Fedora is not a distribution with a long term support, LTS distributions
> are better suited to support legacy hw then Fedora ever will.
Nobody is asking Fedora to provide support for fixing old hardware if it
breaks. All we are asking for is for Fedora to continue running on old
hardware that is *not* broken.
Some parts are hard to swap, others are easy. My soon 14-year-old notebook
has a relatively new hard disk (standard SATA laptop/notebook HDD, thinner
than the original one, but the screws hold it in the correct position, so
that does not matter and actually improves cooling airflow) and power supply
adapter (cheap generic universal power supply, one of the offered plugs is
both physically and electrically compatible with my notebook). The old HDD
might even have worked longer, I replaced it after the first failed sector,
with a faster (7200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm) one with twice the capacity
(512 GB instead of 256 GB, though, if I had waited a bit longer, I could
have gotten an SSD of the same size instead for that price, but now I do not
want to replace the storage again in that ancient notebook). The power
supply adapter was the only thing I *had* to replace, as the old one had
failed completely.
(And, realistically speaking, the HDD and the power supply are statistically
among the parts most likely to fail to begin with.)
Kevin Kofler
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