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Just this week we've seen Linux talking about dropping support for some older hardware precisely because attacks against it were becoming easier with LLMs.
by Ar-Curunir 6mo ago
Just this week we've seen Linux talking about dropping support for some older hardware precisely because attacks against it were becoming easier with LLMs.
- joe_mamba 6mo agoDo you have a detailed source for this? I want to read more about it. Because I noticed my old Core 2 Quad PC with Nvidia 8600GT that my parents use as their email and Facebook machine, doesn't boot with any linux newer than Kernel 6.1 even though I can get Windows 11 to boot on it. So the myth around "Linux is great for old PCs", highly depends on what HW you have.
- esseph 6mo agoSounds like an Nvidia driver module issue more than anything else. If I had to guess, simply removing the Nvidia module should fix that and still get you video through one of the various backup paths (opennuveau etc)
- joe_mamba 6mo agoYou can run no-mode-set to get video output at boot/installation phase but then you're stuck with 800x600. That's with the FOSS nouveau driver in the kernel. There's no fixes that I could find. My LLM research says nouveau dropped support for that Nvidia architecture on newer kernels. Bummer.
- esseph 6mo ago> Bummer You can still use an older 6.x kernel, but yeah... It's had almost a 20yr run! 2007 release.
- dwroberts 6mo ago> even though I can get Windows 11 to boot on it But by modifying it right? Because the core 2 does not support SSE4.2