These people making comments a laptop with PCMCIA cannot run recent kernels are clueless and are clearly only "click and play" users, versus using a terminal. Most users with a pentium 3 and ~500MB RAM can easily still use Gentoo, a source based distribution and compiling each package, while using the virtual terminals. Minimalist desktops also work well with the limited hardware, albeit most tasks are best when using a virtual terminal and curses/ncurses front-ends.
Kernel developers should really do something with preserving these old working kernel drivers, for those digging-up their old hardware for completing one or two tasks every now and then.
Well, anyways, thank God I still have my WIndows XP install CDROM. My gut feeling, everybody with older hardware will be reverting to, amazingly, WIndows! Well, these developers gutting code sure are adding value to Microsoft.
What is interesting, the PCMCIA slots on these older laptops are what truly made the older laptops somewhat future proof and very useful! Without PCMCIA slots, pentium 3 laptops will revert to only USB-1 main board ports, rather than having USB-2/Firewire via PCMCIA slots. Including having wireless hardware. Shrugs... have a working Dell laptop here, like many others, although the old working Dell is in storage now.
Kernel developers should really do something with preserving these old working kernel drivers, for those digging-up their old hardware for completing one or two tasks every now and then.
Well, anyways, thank God I still have my WIndows XP install CDROM. My gut feeling, everybody with older hardware will be reverting to, amazingly, WIndows! Well, these developers gutting code sure are adding value to Microsoft.
What is interesting, the PCMCIA slots on these older laptops are what truly made the older laptops somewhat future proof and very useful! Without PCMCIA slots, pentium 3 laptops will revert to only USB-1 main board ports, rather than having USB-2/Firewire via PCMCIA slots. Including having wireless hardware. Shrugs... have a working Dell laptop here, like many others, although the old working Dell is in storage now.
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