Linus Torvalds sees “zero real reason for anybody to waste one second” on them.

I didn’t know whether to mark this NSFW or not but it’s time to buy a new computer if you haven’t upgraded in multiple decades.

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I remember when Mandrake was a young distro – a redhat derivative – and they (gasp) chose to compile for i586 instead of i386. People were like VROooooOM! And a bunch of other people were like: why would you target CPU instructions that not everyone has?!

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 hours ago

    i like this. hardware should be the least disposable as possible, as long as there is manpower to maintain it. as long as theres people still using it fruitfully, its not trash.

  • Vopyr@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 hours ago

    It’s sad, when you think about it, because I was under the impression that Linux was perfect for old/ancient machines, but if support for old hardware gets thrown away…

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      13·
      41 minutes ago

      Old kernels still run on it, it just won’t get new versions.

      The reason Linux (and BSD) is perfect for old machines is that the source code is available, so anyone can maintain it if they want to. It doesn’t mean the core Linux team has to maintain it for them though.