Simon Josefsson wrote: > +1 on abstracting this to a general policy to remove support for > anything that is EOL'd upstream plus some reasonable time margin (five > years is certainly okay)
Not a general policy, but: the fact that an OS only existed on non-x86 hardware means that - such hardware usually got broken over the course of 20 years, - it's hard to emulate in a VM. Therefore HP-UX will be the next candidate for removal. Whereas Solaris, which has had an x86 version since ca. 1990, and old FreeBSD releases will be supported for a longer time, IMO. > But what does the above mean, will you remove mentions of IRIX in the > manual? We have collected a lot of knowledge about IRIX related to its > bugs over the years. This knowledge has become useless, when no hardware with this OS exists any more except in museums. Bruno
