On Feb 15, 2019, at 11:08 AM, mark <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote:
> 
> To say "spend $20..." does not relate to "have to find a workaround to do
> it *today*", nor to "this is a  work system, I'm not driving out to
> Microcenter to buy one”.

What’s your hourly rate?  How much did *not* driving out to Microcenter cost 
your employer?

If you’re salaried, there’s the opportunity costs: what work did you *not* do 
while trying to save that $20 and hour round trip?

RHEL drops old hardware constantly, roughly aligning with its ~10 year support 
window.  It doesn’t surprise me that the early Matrox cards have fallen out of 
support by now.

The last such deprecation to bite me was the 3ware 8000 series cards, last 
supported on EL5 or 6.  When resuscitating such systems, we either have to 
stick with the old OS or upgrade them to 9000 series cards — which won’t attach 
8000 series RAID sets — or switch array technologies entirely.

Doubtless you can throw heroic efforts at getting old X drivers to build with 
current software, but is that a good use of your time, given the alternatives?
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