Stewart Stremler wrote:
So the TJ Lug has a bunch of old machines, but they don't want any more... they want new, shiny kit. Good for them... go buy it. When you stop accepting old hardware, you've just declared yourself to be self-sustaining.
Yes and no. There has to be a limit otherwise people will just dispose of their broken crap on you. Given that there is now a cost to disposing of computer hardware, that needs to be considered.
In addition, motherboard support in the Linux kernel drops off quite rapidly with age. A computer older than about 2 years starts exhibiting instabilities with modern Linux distributions.
Last I checked, open-source video drivers were still stuck at the Radeon 9200 level since we don't have any good open-source video documentation.
Linux no longer has the "support everything on the planet" ethic. Now it's more like, "It runs on my hardware. To hell with the rest of you."
This is kind of funny since it was the "runs on any old crap hardware" that helped make Linux more popular than *BSD which simply refused to support certain broken hardware.
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