[elrepo] Installing Centos 8.0.1905 to Dell T310

[David Ranch]

I usually lurk here on the list but I have to chime in on this one. 
After reading Redhat's removal of some very important drivers from their 
stock kernel (such as the e1000, etc), it really bothers me where this 
is going.  I can appreciate that Redhat aka.. IBM might not do hardware 
regression testing on all of those modules within their kernel but I bet 
they don't do regression testing on a lot of other modules as well.  Why 
not leave the support in there but declare there isn't any support for 
them?  Once upon a time, Linux was all about running a competent OS on 
sorts of new *AND* old hardware and in this example, this Dell T310 
server was released in 2010.  Yes, it's a 10yr old server but does that 
make it worthless? I don't think so.

Changes like this really hurts Redhat but thankfully we have the EPEL 
and ElRepo teams to help short up Redhat's gaps.

--David


>
> I forgot to mention one other link, that of a recent posting to the
> ELRepo blog on the subject of "RHEL 8.0 and support for removed
> adapters" --
>
> https://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-adapters.html
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/attachments/20191221/2d222cc8/attachment-0001.html>