Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 11:14:38AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> For ecological reasons, we decided to try (whenever possible) to use servers
> as long as possible, as much as 15 years. In many cases that's possible. For
> example, old Dell PowerEdge R610 servers can be equipped with 2x newer CPUs
> (it's a 2 socket mother board), more RAM, and recent network boards (like
> Mellanox ConnectX4). All of that costs a fraction of the price of a new
> server. In many cases, this type of server can handle the workload very
> well. For example, it's ok for a Ceph MON machine, or a Swift proxy machine
> (as long as you need only CPU + network load, not storage, this kind of
> servers are fine).
Many Enterprise users will strictly refuse to do such operations to
hardware that is not yet written off, and of course after it has been
written off as well.
Ironically, those are the user groups that don't use Debian because we
release too often and that you cannot buy commercial support from
Debian.
Greetings
Marc
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