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. I fail to imagine what use case you might have in mind where that requirement would interact with Fedora. If such regulation would be applied to Fedora, the closest equivalent would be that the Fedora Project would be required to provide bug fixes to old releases for seven to ten years, so Fedora would essentially have to be RHEL. If I had the kind of strictly specified system where any broken part must be replaced with an identical part, then I would definitely not run the constantly changing Fedora on it. Such a system would rather run RHEL, or something even more stable than RHEL. It makes no sense to take special care to keep the hardware unchanging for ten years, even when repairing it, and then replace the software twice a year with different user interfaces, changed behavior and a new set of bugs in every release. As for the kind of computers that Fedora is suitable for, I'll use them until they break, whether that happens after five or fifteen years, and then I'll replace the broken part or the whole computer with modern hardware that can be expected to last for many more years. If a broken part is less than three years old, then I have a right to get it repaired or replaced. Past the three-year limit I won't make any attempt to buy the exact same model to replace a broken motherboard (where the bios is stored). I'll take the opportunity to upgrade to the latest stuff when I need to buy a new motherboard anyway, so it will remain useful for as long as possible. That doesn't change at any seven- or ten-year limit. I seriously doubt I could find a seven-year-old motherboard on the market anyway. Used perhaps, but not from the vendor. If a computer doesn't break, I may eventually have to replace it when the processor can no longer keep up with the software's demands, but that takes much longer than ten years nowadays. Björn Persson
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