Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux 32 bit support days are numbered Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 14:50:42 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2antolx5gp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <1097epa$msm2$1@dont-email.me> <1098pdv$2o09q$3@paganini.bofh.team> <0Yudna13zPeqcSr1nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1098vhv$2o09q$5@paganini.bofh.team> <1099357$11hv4$12@dont-email.me> <109979b$1389k$9@dont-email.me> <10999a5$1g1jr$1@news1.tnib.de> <109gmm0$35m5k$1@news1.tnib.de> <109h7d2$3qvlp$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net saFbEF8dwoKBfF3F992arAht7cnfoZs1Zrjc9a/PYYEPIWAmuI X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:u/qJKUwwQikwk/bDcRvSGYJ/mwM= sha256:CFhPf+6WsCvczD0fJckIH2s9VI2CmVo5ON6XmNXaqko= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <109h7d2$3qvlp$1@news1.tnib.de> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73545 On 2025-09-06 13:54, Marc Haber wrote: > Steve Hayes wrote: >> On Sat, 06 Sep 2025 09:08:48 +0200, Marc Haber >> wrote: >> >>> Steve Hayes wrote: >>>> On Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:37:40 +0200, Marc Haber >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>>>> My point being that freeDos, CP/M etc still exist. As does SUN solaris, >>>>>> Ultrix etc., >>>>> >>>>> You can continue running vintage OSses on vintage hardware. It is >>>>> expecting much (too much) to expect to run a current OS on vintage >>>>> hardware for free. >>>> >>>> All I ask is that a current OS can run vintage software and read the >>>> data collected by it. >>> >>> That is asking too much. >> >> Why? > > Because you'll need to have volunteers to sacrifice their free time to > support the use case that only you and a tiny tiny fracture of the > user base still has. > > You will probably not be able to find those volunteers. So better > start learning and volunteering yourself now. I don't think that being able to read vintage data is asking too much. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;