Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:47:53 +0200 | Subject | Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead |
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:47 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 1/11/21 4:04 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> There has to be a healthy balance between hobbyist and commercial use. I understand > that from a commercial point of view, it doesn't make much sense to run Linux > on a 30-year-old computer.
I have another impression (depending on what you put under "commercial use"). Industrial requirements are to support for 15+ (in some cases 30+) years for hardware. I'm quite sure they don't want to have completely outdated software there either.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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