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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by tsimionescu on Saturday November 01, 2025 @05:56AM (#45780464)
It's much more common to find businesses running on very old hardware in developed countries, not in developing ones. Developing nations basically didn't use computers 20-30 years ago, there's no random remnants from that era beyond some extreme tail end. And, given how the PC & server market evolved in the 2000s and 2010s, it was cheaper to buy a then-current x86 than to import some ancient Alpha system from wherever. Especially so since software licenses didn't really exist in those days in developing countries - even government institutions often ran pirated software without a second thought.
Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by baobun on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:40PM (#45783597)
Are you speaking from experience?

There's a non-negligble amount of "handed-down" refurbished hardware from developed to developing. PCs and servers that are already 5+yo and out of market at installation.

Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by tsimionescu on Sunday November 02, 2025 @05:13PM (#45793887)
I'm sure that's true for 5-10 year old tech, as the market has changed significantly. But I'd bet you'll be very hard pressed to find any businesses running on Alpha or HP-PA or whatever other ancient architectures might not have a Rust compiler available. Especially so if you were to look for businesses running modern Debian on such systems...