Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
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.
Linux still does run on any old crap hardware. But you need to get a
version of Linux produced from when that hardware was common. Don't you
think it would be rather difficult to insist on never throwing any
driver away and maintaining support for every piece of hardware that was
ever supported? That means things constantly get more complicated and
there is more and more code to maintain and change every time some API
changes. It would mean more and more work for every kernel release. It
just does not seem practical.
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A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text
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