Re: Planned obsolescence ?

Hi All,

Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Debian is (at least up to now) the Linux distribution one could rely
> on to support hardware as long as its actual life without forcing
> users to upgrade. I have ~2007 (Penryn) systems still in use that were
> deployed with Debian when new, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. If
> it ain't broke, don't fix it, just upgrade Debian:-)
>
> Debian isn't Microsoft. Debian isn't Apple. Debian isn't Google.
> Please don't learn the wrong lessons from them. Planned obsolescence
> is bad, not good.

I stand to  Romain. Long-term support also means less electronic waste, 
less consumism.
10 years might be for a laptop - although a good number now shows 20 
years can be done if they were a lucky model, but certain embedded 
boards, servers are still working very well. Think about ThinkPad T 
series, PowerMac G3 & G4, Sun UltraSPARC system.

Of course, certain pieces of software may be not useful with limited RAM 
or single-core CPUs, but others to perfectly fine.

Main issue is of course Kernel, toolchain and for laptops & 
workstations, video card support.

Riccardo