[Dovecot] Follow-up re: gcc 2.96 - Re: PATCH: compile dovecot-1.1.beta14 with gcc 2.95

[Scott Silva]

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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