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Re: End of 10

BTW? I'm GNU/Linux user since Fedora Core2/3 (yes, I remember FC3) so literally for years now. And I find sudden interest into GNU/Linux (or any other Open-Source OS ) from general public bizarre. Yeah I suppose its weird. It's almost as if everyone is anticipating the impending doom to the way …

Re: End of 10

I'm guessing almost all new machines are sold with SSDs now, and have no idea how Win11 acts. It's slower than I remember Win10 being, and that was slow. I can say that Linux Mint seems fine - Linux updates all the time, almost daily, yet it handles it all ok on quite constrained systems with HDDs …

Re: End of 10

So, I did run into a real world case of this just gaming. I tried to play an older game, Harvest: Massive Encounter. It apparently had a Linux native version. It attempted to install a batch of binaries that were no longer supported in Mint 22.1, and so it completely failed to run. It actually …

Re: End of 10

To me the main barrier for Linux adoption is backwards compatibility with older games and availability of newer games. If developers switch to Linux as the main game platform at some point I already maintain vintage machine for old OSes, so what's one more for "modern" software. For the first time …

Re: Matrox G450 PCI

G450 is slow for Windows gaming, GeForceMX 440-460 is much better, FX5500 is ok too. If G450 is slow then ATi Rage XL (Rage Pro) is what? I use Rage3 cards for older Win9x d3d/ogl/3dcif games + voodoo add card for glide. Well, for late 90s games, GF4 MX440+, FX5500 (2002-2004), are in a different …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

So I think there is alot of potential for breakage from the reasons discussed. However, the nice thing about Linux, and other systems that are open source, is that the old versions are not simply just going away, and anyone can make whatever changes they want. You don't have that with closed source …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Probably true. On other hand, if not for sake of old hardware, then what's Linux actually good for? It's not the only *nix system out there is. I don't think there are any other mainstream *nix out there, so... All my life, I saw the main use case of Linux to rescue/recycle old hardware. Linux when …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

What's also interesting, the chipset logic in modern intel motherboards, IME, seems to use a 486/586 core in the "Quark" component. Here, a modified Minix 3 is run, if memory serves. https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2018/6/1520827829694087 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark https://en. …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Right. Though It's also removing support for CPUs without built-in x87 FPU, I think. Such as 486SX, 486DLC, NexGen Nx586 etc. Considering that even Windows 3.x has an FPU emulator makes this look a bit surreal. Right, I'd agree on surreal on Linux's x86 roots only to a point. There are other …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the first generation Cyrix 6x86 fits a Socket 7 (and might therefore be considered Pentium-class) but only implements the 486 instruction set and advertises itself as a 486, so it might be such a processor. Probably. I'm not going to look it up, but the Cyrix 6x86 …

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