On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:02 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
The one thing I can't accept is breaking support for systems which worked fine on older releases. I don't want people running FC9 any more, but FC13 no longer supports the hardware. By support I mean a default install will display a graphical login screen a opposed to locking up so hard the battery must come out.
An educated guess would be that the underlying system (e.g. Xorg, the compiler, or even most of the OS) changed over time, and nobody in the development side of things was using any of the hardware that (now) fails, to be able to notice that it failed.
For people without that specific hardware, probably the only failure that they're going to notice would be a compilation error.