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Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review by Suzuran on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:15PM (#33333430)
This has more to do with the 486 (or clones of it) having adoption in embedded platforms that run Linux than Linux being reluctant to let support for old consumer-oriented hardware die. For example, Linux doesn't even bother with attempting to mitigate speculative execution vulnerabilities on Intel processors running in 32-bit mode, you are just told you are vulnerable and that's that.
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Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review by bryanlarsen on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:10PM (#33334871)
What's the chicken and what's the egg? A large part of the reason that Linux is popular in embedded is because it has a long support period.
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Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review by Suzuran on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:29PM (#33335062)
My point was that the support for 486 was being kept due to its embedded applications and not so someone with a 486-based desktop PC can expect to build a modern distribution on it and achieve full functionality equivalent to a modern machine.
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Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review by bryanlarsen on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:00PM (#33335393)
Not all comment replies are disagreements.
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