Updates Politics Proposal

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:47 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> That would be nice except for one thing, these distributions check the
> bios for newness and when it is not sufficiently new installation of
> these becomes a big problem.

Care to elaborate on this?  I haven't seen any anaconda code that looks
for bios dates or anything like that.  I've put CentOS4 on some pretty
old hardware, and when you're just running servers you can run a pretty
light CentOS4 (RHEL4).

>  On the other hand, RH7.3 is stable but does
> need to support more modern apps. I would encourage the powers that be
> at Fedora Legacy to consider keeping this one release as current as
> possible as it is one of the few that can work on old hardware which
> is
> likely found in basements and the third world.

This is WAY beyond the scope of Fedora Legacy.  What you also fail to
realize is that by keeping applications current, you basically get to
the point that CentOS4 or FC3/4 is, and need the same system
requirements to run it.  RHL7.3 runs on old hardware because it is old
software.  If we make it new software, guess what happens....

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