Bug#755230: closed by Andreas Glaeser
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:15:57 -0700
Andrew Kurn <kurn@sfu.ca> wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
>
> In my turn, I don't understand how to work around a non-bootable
> installer image. Believe me, I booted the way I did because it
> was the only way I could think of.
>
> "Nowadays" is the important word IMHO in your answer. I'm working
> with old hardware and, so, I have the opinion that old hardware
> is important and should be considered when bringing out new
> releases.
>
> One reason that people might prefer free software (as in beer)
> is because they don't have much money.
>
> When you say:
> > I forwarded your message to the respective bug-report.
>
> do you mean to a list working especially on documentation?
> That's my hope.
>
> Good wishes,
> Andrew
It is quite illusionary in my opinion, when people think they can save lots of money, by
having old servers run literally forever, until they break and have to be thrown away.
The opposite is true, because of the poor energy-efficiency of the old hardware, the
energy-costs exceed the cost of buying something new, that's more or less up to date and
at least provides proper efficiency. In some IT-departments they probably think,
electricity-expenses are none of their business, but overall it is a waste of resources,
especially for systems with lots of uptime, nonetheless.
Here in Germany you can currently get (used) 64-bit thin-clients (featuring HD-audio),
p-rated 2100+ MHz, that use about 20 W of energy at about EUR 20,- (I am not talking
about a monthly fee here).
That's why it doesn't really make sense to keep servers from the Pentium-II-age up
and running. If a Nano-server is insufficient for your purposes and you need features
like RAID, you can still take a Micro-server, that is essentially built from
notebook-components.
32-bit Software is going to die out in the long term, i386-support was removed already
in recent Linux-kernels, i486 is the minimum now, you also find it in some embedded
devices so it's probably going to continue for a while.
Greetings
Andreas
P.S. you could also file a report against the debian-reference package, say your proposal
is wishlist for instance.
[This] bug-report is there:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755230
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