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Yeah and after so many years of polish, it'll probably still work for decades without a maintainer. Also don't forget that it's not required for people to upda
by rocky1138 7y ago
Yeah and after so many years of polish, it'll probably still work for decades without a maintainer.
Also don't forget that it's not required for people to update to a new version of Linux the way it is for Mac or Windows. If you want, just never update. Or, worst case, keep an old machine around at a working version of you don't want your main computer to go out of date.
- davesmith1983 7y agoWhile the machine is old relatively it is quite happy running discord, vscode and a web browser and I use it in my office as my main dev machine. I don't want to have to go through the hassle of running two operating systems or compiling a custom kernel. Well we will see what happens I suppose.
- CydeWeys 7y agoIt sounds like you're entering the realm of sufficiently niche to the point that you might need two computers (or at least dual boot). I've been there for decades, though not for the exact same reason.
- davesmith1983 7y agoYeah you are probably right. I think the last version of Windows that runs well and has a proper floppy driver is XP-64 bit (basically Windows Server 2003 64bit). OpenBSD will probably work well if I swap out the Geforce 8800 GPU with an AMD GPU of some sort, I am sure I could get a relatively decent one second hand.