W. Martin Borgert wrote...
> Quoting Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> >Also, dedicated tiny flash partitions for the kernel and initrd. I
> >wouldn't be surprised to be find that by the time we want to release
> >buster we can't build a useful kernel that fits into the 2 MB partition
> >that most of these devices seem to have.
>
> Non-HF devices can be very different, look at e.g. this ARM926EJ-S one:
> http://www.taskit.de/stamp9g20.html
Maximum RAM is 128 Mbytes. Wouldn't buy this to run Debian on it.
> >As it is, stretch will be supported until 2020, maybe 2022 on armel.
> >Is it really worthwhile to add another 2 years to that?
>
> This depends on the effort, of course. But for environmental reasons
> I'ld say the longer the better.
Certainly, with some limits though. At some point new hardware is that
much more energy efficient the inital cost pays off over the intended
time of usage. Want my old P4 server?
Christoph
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