On 20/06/2024 15:03, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
Honestly, I'd like to pitch that we retarget Fedora at x86_64-v3 (yes, three) and recommend creation of a Fedora "Hardware Life Extension" Remix that can provide rebuilds of (a subset of) Fedora that they want to run on ancient hardware. It could be something similar to Fedora ELN, where a subset of the main repo that might be useful on old hardware can be rebuilt (though unlike ELN, I suggest that this should be an entirely separate infrastructure not maintained by the Fedora Project). Such a project could then live or die based on willingness to maintain it and stop holding back Fedora as a whole.
I definitely think going to v2 would be reasonable bit I tink forcing v3 might be a step too far. While my desktop is v4 and my laptop is v3 I have two other machines at home which are only v2 one of which is only five years old having been built then to replace a 32 bit machine when Fedora was dropping 32 bit x86 support. Having checked a couple of dozen machines at work that are running either F39 or F40 it's roughly a 50/50 split between ones which are v2 and ones with are v3. There are even three v1 machines there though one is redundant and the other two do really need replacing. Tom -- Tom Hughes (tom@xxxxxxxxxx) http://compton.nu/ -- _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
