On 2023/03/26 04:01, Axel Braun wrote:
Then your hardware is really old - I just upgraded my 2008 eeePC with 1G RAM and 18G HD to the latest (i586) TW release. Takes some time, but worked flawless.
--- You have to understand. For every one of you "works flawless", there could be 100 or more on each upgrade that are "no longer supported", for whatever reason. At each upgrade, many get dropped from support/working. You experience is the cream of the crop. Example -- I tried to drop "unused" 32-bit libs on my sys during one update (maybe where they said 32-bit wasn't going to be supported anymore). Then I could no longer install a new kernel to boot from -- reason? One of the 32-bit libs was used by the create-boot process but not listed as a dependency. The lib was too old to be found in any recent image, and I was told, of course, that it was my fault for running lilo. So haven't been able to update kernel since then. I've been skittish about installing a new bootloader, since if it didn't work, system wouldn't boot. So I keep looking at it, and wondering the safest way to fix it, but given that it is still working, and smallish plate is full w/other nonsense, I'm just selected out of the upgrade process (not that many might not think this a good thing). Whatever. Things that make upgrades less reliable and more error prone lose users/customers over time. Cheers to you too. -l