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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