Thanks Peter, point got. I also go ahead with very old hardware, kind of 10 years old minipc/pc (including a Mac Pro).. and we are in so good habits with our OpenBSD os that we tend to think no problem will never arise. Saddly enough we maybe forget what is really feasible..
-- Daniele Bonini Jul 3, 2023 14:47:57 Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 01:36:10PM +0200, Michael Hekeler wrote: >> oh dear I have forgotten the model number - Sorry! >> >> It is Thinkpad 570 > > I had to look this up, since I had forgotten that Thinkpads used to come > with model numbers not prefixed and/or postfixed with letters. > > I think one of several issues you will bump into is that the machine is > almost a quarter century old (released April 1999 if Wikipedia is to be > trusted), > and you may be one of fairly few people who have kept one around this long. > > This means in practice that in all likelihood, recent versions of any > now-useful > software has been only lightly tested (if at all) on that vintage hardware. > > If you can get someone with the right skillset interested (as in, not me, by > any measure) it is conceivable that a fix is within reach. That said, however, > I suspect that improving support for more current hardware would tend to > take priority when developers decide what to spend their time on. > > All the best, > Peter > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
