The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix

Mike@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml – 259 points –
The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers
phoronix.com
72

You are viewing a single comment

So just don’t upgrade the kernel

Then 0-day can become known vulnerability. Yay?

What are you doing that is so crucial to keep a 20+ year old piece of consumer hardware connected to the internet? Honest question

To answer the question as given:

https://lyonsden.net/getting-an-amiga-a1200-online-part-1-adding-a-network-card/

https://hackaday.com/2016/12/17/apple-ii-web-server-written-in-basic/

Because. The answer is because.

And if you have a machine that is more capable than those by default then the OS software artificially disabling its use is pretty fucked up.

So, there's nothing actually crucial, it's for tinkering. I doubt either the Apple II or the Amiga you linked are going to be secure.

Yeah you're not actually interested in listening to what's being said. Bye.

If you're doing it for the memes then you don't really need to worry about malware. Your machine is probably too old for anything that's still floating out there to even work on it.

Many people browse 4-5 pages a day, see a few emails, print a few pdfs, and a core2duo, or x4, for 40#/$/Eu a box run flawlessly with linux and xfce/lxde for example.
Even video-conferencing works fine.

Why not?

@ICastFist @db2

This is not about "old computers" in general, this is about a specific set of consumer graphics cards that are not needed for any of those things you mentioned.

Also worth noting: a core2duo is from around 2006. These dropped cards are from the late 90s.