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[Martin Pauly <pauly AT hrz.uni-marburg.de>]

Hi,

Am 05.10.22 um 11:41 schrieb Tomasz Wolniewicz (via cat-users Mailing List):
> If you got to cat.eduroam.org and select University of Malta and you are using an Android device then you should be 
> shown the correct download profile, that would read either "Android 8 and higher" or "Android 4.3 to 
> 7". When you click the download button you will be shown information that you should first download an app: 
> "geteduroam" for the newer devices and "eduroamCAT" for older. The download button tells you 
> exactly which one it is.

Technically, this is correct. But wouldn't you rather want to ban "Android 4.3 to 
7" from eduroam
because of the lack of security updates? 90% of the really old OSes that show 
up in our helpdesk
have some kind of trouble anyway (newer Apps not supporting old OS etc.)
Note: I do no mean you should throw away the device itself. Either you get 
some custom ROM to run on it,
or you still get updates (e.g Fairphone 2 gets Android 10), or you can put it 
to internal, limited use --
but rarely as a traveler's device on eduroam.

Cheers, Martin

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