on 2/27/2008 1:46 PM Kevin A. McGrail spake the following:
Well, for me, it's a vast number of boxes deployed and often maintained by others that are running stabling for 8+ years making the nuance of upgrading to a newer version of GCC fairly mute from a lay persons perspective. Seriously, how can you argue with a non-technical user that their box installed in 2001 has a "problem" when everything is working "fine"?How much longer can a system be expected to run? 8+ years at 24/7 is about a half a million hours. Drives are getting old and expensive to replace. Processors are probably slow. Energy use is high. Motherboard capacitors are probably drying up. The systems are past a safe point and are getting closer to the "great e-waste pile in the sky".
And why would someone install the same old OS on new hardware, and would it support it.
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