WoofyDugfock
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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,07:05 |
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As a newbie I feel a bit churlish about adding any remark to this thread but there is something I have wondered ...pls bear with me.
Clearly one of the most in demand (and interesting) uses of dsl is for recommissioning old hardware with a modern os. It would be fair to say this appears to me, in my short period here, to be a decent share of dsl's "market".
I read that a decision has been made to no longer maintain various backwards (hardware) compatible features in dsl's ongoing development - I imagine the syslink thing comes into this category. Of course earlier versions of dsl remain downloadable.
While it is for John and the developers to say, perhaps the idea of an eventual divergence of dsl into two development streams - one optimized for recent hardware only, the other maintaining or even focusing on backwards compatibility - might be a possible solution eg a "retro" dsl and dsl proper. But it is probably premature to consider this at this stage. Might just double the problems but it might also build a growing niche for dsl as the very best retrofit OS especially as the number of demonstrably-compatible modern apps & guis grow: there's clearly a need out there.
Just a suggestion for future consideration and I'm sure it has already occurred to people anyway....
I guess this is what Roberts meant by 'supporting two versions' anyway
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