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Fedora 21 Drops Support For A Bunch Of Old GPUs
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Originally posted by mjg59 View PostThe only server GPUs I've seen in the past few years are G200SE variants, rn50/es1000 and Aspeed
Google turns up a few results of smaller vendors, like aTCA-6250: http://www.adlinktech.com/PD/web/PD_detail.php?pid=1111
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Originally posted by chithanh View PostI have come across servers that use SiliconMotion SM750 chipsets in recent years, I don't quite remember which however.
Google turns up a few results of smaller vendors, like aTCA-6250: http://www.adlinktech.com/PD/web/PD_detail.php?pid=1111
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Originally posted by mjg59 View PostWow. Well, from a practical perspective, there's almost no benefit running a native driver instead of vesa on that hardware. It probably does mean that someone's going to have to write a KMS driver, though.
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Yes, I agree that removing SiliconMotion support will not hurt any server users. They are the ones to least suffer from dropping non-kms drivers anyway. It was just an example of a chipset besides the popular ES1000, G200eW and AST chips which I encountered recently (non-recent examples include XGI Volari Z7 in some TYAN systems, but these are long out of production now).
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Originally posted by Luke View PostOlder distros work better on older machines, but over time become hard to find or hard to get packages for.
This is Fedora that is dropping them, remember.Last edited by Hamish Wilson; 28 October 2013, 11:38 AM.
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The LTS versions of Ubuntu or the enterprise distros indeed help when it comes to security support.
However, they don't help if you want to run a recent kernel with support for new peripherals or modern filesystems, or want to use recent releases of (lightweight) desktop environments/applications.
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Originally posted by chithanh View PostThe LTS versions of Ubuntu or the enterprise distros indeed help when it comes to security support.
However, they don't help if you want to run a recent kernel with support for new peripherals or modern filesystems, or want to use recent releases of (lightweight) desktop environments/applications.
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If I understand correctly, EPEL is a community effort and receives no formal security support.
Also, they provide only addon packages, and won't e.g. update system libraries, the X server or other packages that are central to the system:
Originally posted by http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPoliciesEPEL packages should only enhance and never disturb the Enterprise Linux distributions they were build for. Thus packages from EPEL should never replace packages from the target base distribution
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Originally posted by chithanh View PostIf I understand correctly, EPEL is a community effort and receives no formal security support.
Also, they provide only addon packages, and won't e.g. update system libraries, the X server or other packages that are central to the system:
So EPEL appears to be a solution for getting a modern desktop environment, but not for all the other issues.
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