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Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote at 21:52 this Thursday (GMT):
> On 12/19/24 3:35 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
>> I hear a lot of ignoramus assholes talk about how GNU/Linux is
>> the savior of old, and obsolescent, hardware.
>> 
>> That certainly is true, but not how these assholes believe.
>> 
>> GNU/Linux can indeed accommodate any old hardware configuration,
>> but don't expect the average distro to do it.
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>> Let's say that you want floppy disk access.  Floppy disks have
>> been obsolete for many, many years, but GNU/Linux can easily
>> provide access.
>> 
>> But not through the average fucking distro!
>> 
>> To get floppy access, one has to go to kernel.org, which contains
>> ALL the kernels since the very beginning, and find the last
>> kernel version that has floppy drivers.  Then, the kernel has
>> to compiled and installed.
>> 
>> Also, the repositories of GLIBC would have to be searched for an
>> appropriate, if necessary, version to support floppy access.
>> 
>> Again, any software that may be relevant to floppy access would
>> have to be acquired from the archives of said software.
>> 
>> In this way, a complete system that supports floppy disk access
>> could be built.
>> 
>> GNU/Linux can support ALL hardware back to 1991 but the user has
>> to be prepared to build the system.  No distro can do it.
>> 
>> What about Microslop Winblows?
>> 
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  That proprietary piece of junk can't
>> support anything beyond yesterday.  (One of my client's scanners
>> suddenly failed with one of their stupid updates.)
>> 
>> Microslop has no archives.  Such is never the way of commercial
>> garbage.
>> 
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>> 
>>   
>
>
>
> But what you say can be done with Linux can be done with Winblows 
> machines too. Just install an earlier version of Winblows and do not 
> update.
>
> Which is simpler?
[snip]


The thing is that it's pretty hard to avoid updates on Win10/11, and
most software isn't supported on anything older. It's not being actively
developed at all.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Old Hardware Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-19 21:35 +0000
  Re: Old Hardware Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 15:52 -0600
    Re: Old Hardware CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 17:22 -0500
    Re: Old Hardware Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2024-12-20 11:12 +0000
      Re: Old Hardware DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-20 09:25 -0500
      Re: Old Hardware Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 10:02 -0500
        Re: Old Hardware CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-20 10:25 -0500
      Re: Old Hardware Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-20 21:09 +0000
      Re: Old Hardware Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 17:31 -0600
    Re: Old Hardware candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-12-21 01:50 +0000
  Re: Old Hardware vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-19 23:48 +0000
    Re: Old Hardware Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2024-12-20 11:19 +0000
      Re: Old Hardware Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-20 07:37 -0500
        Re: Old Hardware Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-20 21:19 +0000
          Re: Old Hardware Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-20 21:38 +0000
          Re: Old Hardware Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 17:33 -0600
      Re: Old Hardware Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-20 21:00 +0000
        Re: Old Hardware Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-20 21:28 +0000
          Re: Old Hardware Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-20 21:51 +0000
    Re: Old Hardware Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-20 07:34 -0500

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