[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows 98se with Linux!

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Aaron Kulkis
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Completely replacing Windows 98se with Linux!

> And as time goes on, there is less and less interest in maintaining the code to emulate ancient sound cards such as the Ad-Lib, and similarly, almost no interest in emulating ancient graphics cards.

Do you perhaps mean "supporting" instead of emulating there? To run older software in emulation, one or two common hardware variations is usually all that's needed. To run newer software on older hardware, you need specific drivers. Even the latest Linux kernel supports the ISA bus, for example, though it's hardly used these days outside of some industrial control equipment.

But support for floppy tapes was removed from the kernel in ~2006. Nobody would step up to maintain it, and make the driver work with SMP systems, for example.

Hence, why I'm not going to try to install a recent Linux on the ancient machine I mentioned before.

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