Am 05.04.2022 um 16:52 schrieb Ben Cotton
<bcotton(a)redhat.com>:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS
== Summary ==
Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on
platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not
removed, but new non-UEFI installation is not supported on those
platforms. This is a first step toward eventually removing legacy
BIOS support entirely.
From the Fedora Server Working Group's point of view, I am absolutely against this
change (namely to drop new BIOS-boot installations). There are a large number of data
centers with rental hardware (e.g.
hetzner.com) or co-location that (still) require bios
boot even for newer servers. I don't know the reasons, probably due to their support
and management infrastructure. I suppose this will change in the future, but foreseeably
not for the next 5 - x years.
In any case, we would force all users of that environment to switch away from Fedora
Server to another distribution. I’m wondering, do we really want to do that?
And likewise, we must not make it unnecessarily difficult for users to use this (old)
path. We are not a reform school.
And I also don't understand why we should give up a hallmark of free Linux, namely to
support old, but still good usable hardware (unlike commercial system, not only Windows
but also e.g. RHEL).
Peter
(And to my chagrin, I myself would be affected and forced to leave Fedora and immediately
start to move our servers to another distro when this change is accepted.)