Early Adopters Already Hit By Fedora Dropping Old Linux GPU Drivers
Long story short, in the case mentioned above, the SiS driver works much better than the generic xf86-video-vesa and xf86-video-fbdev generic drivers and now this user running their aging system on the latest Fedora Linux development code is left without the dedicated DDX. In that case, the user discovered that Mageia's SiS DDX driver that's packaged happens to be ABI compatible with the Fedora X Server (at least temporarily), so he's back to using his preferred driver without burdening the Fedora developers in supporting an out-of-date, open-source GPU driver.
While Linux is commonly referred to as being able to run on almost anything, especially aging PCs, more Linux developers are realizing the burden in trying to maintain support and compatibility for older hardware; in some cases there's just regressions while in other instances the latest code can be completely broken for months until a user notices. What's your views on Linux maintaining support for old hardware? Let us know in the forums.
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