Forced obsolescence in Linux

[Joshua Zeidner]

Victor, lets take a closer look at this:
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/13/1854259

first off, Microsoft is making that claim.  Secondly, Slashdot has been
disappointing me lately.  Maybe the OSTG buyout is starting to effect the
editorial process.

"Microsoft Corp.'s Linux and open-source lab on the Redmond, Wash., campus
has been running some interesting tests of late, one of which looked at how
well the latest Windows client software runs on legacy hardware in
comparison to its Linux competitors."

sounds like a very objective study. ;)

finally, electronics manufacturers are starting to get desperate:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/22/2144227

On 2/26/06, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Yup, it's getting so you're out of luck if you want to run
> Linux on old computers, a recent Slashdot posting to
> the contrary . . . unless I want to get into the ALSA cvs
> repository and spend a few hours in hopeful hacking ...
> but that's what I do for a living, and we should be past
> that for a driver (snd-sb16 for Sound Blaster 16 ISA)
> that used to work and is now orphaned even in distros
> that used to have it.
>
> Just felt like venting.  I'll do the cvs thing when I have a
> few hours of cultural time (ha!).  And my friend calls me
> every few days asking if his computer is ready yet . . .
> No, he can't cut into his ramen-noodles budget to buy a
> new sound card.
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