• Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    Let’s see how Debian maintainers deals with it.

    I use to give very old hardware a second life for people in need around where I live.

    That includes most of which was moved to Amber and in some case, something that got unsupported.

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOPM
      2·
      3 years ago

      I believe Debian is pretty much never on the latest kernel, their priority is stability and not having the latest everything, so you should be good for a while.

      Worst case scenario, you can still recompile the kernel with those drivers put back in, I guess.

  • Atahualpa@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    I don’t know much about GPUs. For a second I thought they meant Rx 200 series (my R9 290 still works really well)

    The Radeon R200 series is from 2001 - 2004.
    R100 was released in 2000. Are people still using those?

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOPM
      1·
      3 years ago

      The Radeon R200 series is from 2001 - 2004. R100 was released in 2000. Are people still using those?

      Plenty of people do for retro gaming/emulation.

  • a_Ha@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    Aging hardware (not limited to graphics cards) will be plagued by this and by :
    1_ Moist corrosion (dry place please)
    2_ Heat activated diffusion (heat sink)
    3_ Random small levels of gamma radiation (error correction with redundance)
    Fight against entropy never ends