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A proposal to “deprecate” support for BIOS-only systems for Fedora, by no longer
supporting new installations on those systems, led to a predictably long
discussion on the Fedora devel mailing list. There are, it seems, quite a few
users who still have BIOS-based systems; many do not want to
have to switch away from Fedora simply to keep their systems up to date.
But, sometime in the future, getting rid of BIOS support seems inevitable since the
burden on those maintaining the tools for installing and booting
those systems is non-trivial and likely to grow over time. To head
that off, a special interest group (SIG) may form to help keep BIOS support
alive until it really is no longer needed.