From: Farley Flud Subject: Old Hardware Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 47 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.usenetexpress.com!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:35:57 +0000 Nntp-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:35:57 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1993 X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetexpress.com Organization: UsenetExpress - www.usenetexpress.com Bytes: 2340 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! -- Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.