From: not@telling.you.invalid
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev writes:
>> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> None of the claimed positions actually cite any real, specific people
>>> who hold them. The author appears to be arguing with people who exist
>>> only inside their own head.
>>
>> At least so far as the first argument goes, it definitely reflects
>> the attitude of some Linux kernel developers:
>>
>> From the LKML:
>> "On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:16:26AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>> > On Sun, 6 Apr 2025, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> >> I don't have your old rust and maybe you should simply throw it
>> >> in the garbage - that thing is probably not worth the
>> >> electricity it uses to power up... :-)
>> >
>> > C'mon, these are good room heaters with nice extra side effects. ;)
>>
>> Maybe we should intentionally prevent booting Linux on such machines
>> and make this our community's contribution in the fight against
>> global warming!
>>
>> :-P
>> "
>
> There is no statement about making anything more 'bloated' in that
> quote.
I read the statements about bloat in the article assuming a good
dose of hyperbole. I doubt the author really thinks programmers are
setting out to make new programs bloated _just_ so they can't run
on old computers, but they don't consider it an issue (or even say
it's an advantage) when such software won't run on them.
Anyway today I tried out booting their lEEt/OS from a floppy on
this Pentium 1 PC I'm posting from and it's impressive work.
Although trying to run one (ambitious) MSDOS program under their
"ST-DOS" did cause a reboot and the CDROM driver wouldn't load
after that, as one-man hobby OSs go that's much less trouble than I
expect. No FAT32 support though.
http://sininenankka.dy.fi/leetos/
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