Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Sunday 2007-09-30 at 08:51 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > > >> Actually, from what I've seen in articles around, Vista wants >> state-of-the-art equipment to run and much of the legacy equipment just >> doesn't seem to want to run and a lot of people are balking at having to >> buy new computers just to buy a new OS and it's new and improved bugs. >> One nice thing about Linux....so far... is that it historically allows >> people to almost run on their old 'junk' machines and still do useful >> work. I hope this doesn't change any time soon even as it supports the >> newer equipment, I hope the old boxes aren't forgotten. >> > > That's not quite so now. For instance, the limit on the number of > partitions has been decreased from 64 to 16 (less than). That's one of the > consequence of "progress" in the linux field. > > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. > Someone made an ill-advised decision to change the naming scheme of IDE drives to be the same as the new SATA drives to be the same as SCSI. In the process, it inherited the limitations of the SCSI drives. I can't think of a reason for having done it, but it appears to have been done in all the distros. I suspect there will be a great gnashing of teeth when the next release hits the streets and some accomodation will be forthcoming. As one of the beta testers for upcoming 10.3 SuSE, it has already proven 'interesting' and caused me personally no end of frustration. Generally though, Linux's progress has kept pace with the newer hardware without losing sight of its historical past. This is one of the few exceptions so far. I bet that there is NO chance that XP, much less Vista will run on a 386 or a 286... I cranked up 10.2 on a 486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :)
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