Re: Oh Gods - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!!

On 8/22/26 18:35, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:36:42 -0400, TJ wrote:
> 
>> It goes against the grain, for me at least, to send perfectly good
>> running hardware off to the recycler, just because it is
>> "experienced."
> 
> CPU generations (and entire architectures) get dropped from the Linux
> kernel because they can’t find anybody to step forward and maintain
> the support for them.
> 
> That is how they tell that there are so few instances of those
> particular kinds of hardware around, that essentially nobody cares
> about them any more.

   Sad, but quite correct.

   Really not much call to run Linux-ish stuff
   on a 386/486 these days. How many people
   still USE those old boards for ANYTHING ?

   MAYBE a few "industrial" monitor/control
   systems ... but REALLY they oughtta upgrade.

   However SOME won't because it might cost a
   few dollars. They'll run the old hardware
   until it literally bursts into flames - and
   then be SCREWED for days/weeks/months. But,
   the bean-counters will TELL them they're
   saving SO much money, now .......

   There was a case a few years back, Paris airport.
   Suddenly the entire ground-control system went
   down hard. Soon found, it had been running on
   a Win-98 box for MANY years. Since it worked
   nobody bothered at looking to modernize. Not
   spending $10,000 probably cost them $10,000,000 :-)

   Now here is a case where a properly tuned "AI"
   just MIGHT be of good use. Calculate and do what
   the humans don't want to do anymore. What IS
   involved in making an old app work on a 20 year
   newer board ? Humans CAN do it - but don't WANT
   to do it. The "AI"s don't care about any of that
   and WILL offer/script solutions.