I'm not sure I understand the allure of running an OS that has so many distros that are almost hostile to non-mainstream platforms. When the volunteers tire of

I'm not sure I understand the allure of running an OS that has so many distros that are almost hostile to non-mainstream platforms. When the volunteers tire of keeping their mini-distros up to date (and they often do, given enough time), owners of older devices like these are left with just a few options: not care about updates (and possible security issues), try to do the work of applying updates themselves, or abandoning the platform. I don't see the attraction, except for those who enjoy the challenge of updating things themselves. Another option is NetBSD, which doesn't eject platforms because they're not popular. It's one thing if the toolchain requires extensive work, like VAX or ns32k, but if there's enough interest, it happens. Otherwise, most code is portable, so what's written for popular architectures works for less common ones. I'll have to test the latest NetBSD 10 on my Jornada hardware, both ARM (earmv4) and SuperH (sh3el). There're even good sets of pkgsrc binaries for these less common platforms: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/ https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/ https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sh3el/ https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sh3el/