> Am 05.04.2022 um 16:52 schrieb Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com>: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > == Summary == > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not > removed, but new non-UEFI installation is not supported on those > platforms. This is a first step toward eventually removing legacy > BIOS support entirely. >
From the Fedora Server Working Group's point of view, I am absolutely against this change (namely to drop new BIOS-boot installations). There are a large number of data centers with rental hardware (e.g. hetzner.com) or co-location that (still) require bios boot even for newer servers. I don't know the reasons, probably due to their support and management infrastructure. I suppose this will change in the future, but foreseeably not for the next 5 - x years. In any case, we would force all users of that environment to switch away from Fedora Server to another distribution. I’m wondering, do we really want to do that? And likewise, we must not make it unnecessarily difficult for users to use this (old) path. We are not a reform school. And I also don't understand why we should give up a hallmark of free Linux, namely to support old, but still good usable hardware (unlike commercial system, not only Windows but also e.g. RHEL). Peter (And to my chagrin, I myself would be affected and forced to leave Fedora and immediately start to move our servers to another distro when this change is accepted.) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
