On Sun Feb23'25 09:24:32AM, Peter Boy Uni wrote: > From: Peter Boy Uni <p...@uni-bremen.de> > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:24:32 +0100 > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: 11 year old server! > > > > > Am 23.02.2025 um 04:39 schrieb ToddAndMargo via users > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I just visited a customer I had designed a Fedora 30 server. > > That makes the computer eleven years old! > > We release twice a year, so it is about 5 or 6 years old. I see no reason why > you should take the hassle to buy him a new computer. Maybe it is a good idea > to install a second disk in a RAID 1 configuration. > > > > I do not dare upgrade or even install updates it as the > > point-of-sale software he is running a YUGE nasty K-L-U-G-E. > > > > The server is works well still. > > > > He does not want to go with a new software vendor that > > has good support. He will only do it when thing come > > down around his ears. > > I can very well understand that and probably would do the same. If the server > has no connection to the public internet, you may even let it as it is, as > long as everything works as expected. Question is, whether the software works > with the newer system software. Depends of the language that software is > written and the requirements (updating may be „difficult“ with e.g. php, > python or Ruby) >
I have a server from 2009 still going strong. It has always run Fedora, of course, and I use openbox (I have never been keen on a DE for even my newer machines). It is updated every night, and upgraded every six months. (Except that I just realized that I never upgraded to F41, so it is now being upgraded.) I still use a laptop from 2013 (for teaching purposes) and that is running F41. All the software that I use (except for the VPN client on my laptop) is OSS. I am surprised that your client's software has not complained of something assuming that it is still being maintained and interfaces with things beyond the computer. If the computer does not interact much with the outside then there is probably not much of a security issue? I prefer keeping my machines updated. Ranjan -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-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/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
