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minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down28·edit-22 years agoSo much for the legendary hardware support of Linux!
minus-squareLettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down4·2 years agoLol you haven’t upgraded your GPU since the late 90’s?
minus-squaredb2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down7·2 years agoYou know there’s a whole hobby of keeping older hardware running, right?
minus-squareaxum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down1·2 years agoYou’re free to use legacy kernels or run your own fork.
minus-squareNaN@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down3·2 years agoIf only they contributed to the kernel maintenance workload.
minus-squareLettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up28·edit-22 years agoYou know that you can use older versions of the Linux kernel, right?
minus-squaredb2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·2 years agoYou know security vulnerabilities are a thing, right?
minus-squareLettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·2 years agoI know what you mean, I’m so pissed that my 1978 Space Invaders arcade machine doesn’t even support WiFi-6.
minus-squareRadioactive Radio@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 years agoYou know there’s nothing to gain by hacking those old systems, right?
minus-squaredemonsword@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 years agoI doubt any hardware 25+ years can even run a modern vanilla linux kernel, you’d have to compile it yourself with some serious customization for it even work
So much for the legendary hardware support of Linux!
Lol you haven’t upgraded your GPU since the late 90’s?
You know there’s a whole hobby of keeping older hardware running, right?
You’re free to use legacy kernels or run your own fork.
If only they contributed to the kernel maintenance workload.
You know that you can use older versions of the Linux kernel, right?
You know security vulnerabilities are a thing, right?
I know what you mean, I’m so pissed that my 1978 Space Invaders arcade machine doesn’t even support WiFi-6.
Fuckin a
You know there’s nothing to gain by hacking those old systems, right?
I doubt any hardware 25+ years can even run a modern vanilla linux kernel, you’d have to compile it yourself with some serious customization for it even work