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Drawing the line at 10 years old is ... way too close for comfort. I could understand to drop i386 because it basically amounts to another entire architecture,
by AshamedCaptain 5y ago
Drawing the line at 10 years old is ... way too close for comfort. I could understand to drop i386 because it basically amounts to another entire architecture, and besides it seems with i386 you are also generally RAM limited which makes it harder to use a recent DE.
But a 10 year old computer is perfectly capable of running even the latest version of the heavy-est DEs.
Also, "working UEFI supports" means working enough to boot Windows and not much else. Kernel bugzilla still has lots of UEFI bugs open for early UEFI firmware, and even not-so-early UEFI firmware (cough efi=no_disable_early_pci_dma ).
- Sharlin 5y agoMy current desktop's motherboard and CPU are from 2009. I have no idea if the MB supports UEFI; it definitely boots to BIOS by default. I've upgraded the storage, memory, and GPU, but there's been little cause to waste money on a new MB/CPU. But I guess I wouldn't install Fedora on this machine anyway, so shrug.
- mjg59 5y agoEep! efi=no_disable_early_pci_dma only does anything if CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_PCI_DMA is set, and distros should not be setting that by default (it's a thing that works Just Fine in theory, and specific implementations may fail hard with it - eg, if ExitBootServices() triggers a callback that assumes that a PCI device is able to DMA, things may explode). It's a useful security feature (I mean, I wrote it, I would say that) but it can break even if implementations follow the spec perfectly.