How does "Upgrade to Freedom" align with elimination of V1 and V2 support?

I’m confused … please explain this to me @opensusenews bot

The openSUSE Project’s Upgrade to Freedom campaign urges people to extend the life of their device rather than becoming e-waste

Only TW is keeping that functionality correct? How do you reconcile that contradiction?

Most computers built after 2010 can run Linux operating systems like openSUSE, Fedora, or Debian with excellent performance

Yes I know … I’m doing that right now

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@dart364 all depends on the end use, there are many Distribution flavors and Architectures. I have one v1 system here (probably more but aren’t used) a MacBook from 2007… I don’t use it, but have it…

The bulk of my x86_64 setups here have v2/v3 support and one with v4 support (soon to become my primary desktop).

Tumbleweed still has community support for x86…

Leap/MicroOS/Kalpa also dropping support for V2 correct?

Leap Micro probably, not MicroOS as that follows Tumbleweed.

all depends on the end use

Well I compiled a browser that shouldn’t have worked but it did … had to throw some zram and a btrf swapfile at it as well as boot to runlevel 3 with my 8GB mem but I did it … Only took a little over an hour … :nerd_face:

Yes, Aeon already doesn’t support anything prior to v3, Kalpa will be making that same move.

I believe microOS will still be supporting it, as Tumbleweed does, for the forseeable future.

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Hi, I think folks also need to realize there is a big difference between “supported” and “support”…

It may have x, y, or z support, but may not be supported because of a) no resources to verify/test b) no interest in supporting old/obsolete hardware…

As I’ve indicated before, I have no interest in bug reports related to 32bit hardware and my packages not working, likewise if anything relates to BIOS boot, v1 or v2 hardware (AMD is probably in there too) I have no resources to test or attempt to fix…

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