this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

GNU/Linux:

  • Can I install this 20yo software?
  • Is already installed.
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I install this 20yo software?

user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

SUDO Can I install this 20yo software?

Is already installed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You guys are awesome!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you do echo "3 6 * p" | dc in a terminal it'll give you the result of 3x6, but the dc part of that is software that was written probably between 1969 and 1971.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is crazy and cool! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Showed me 18 as a result.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how about this driver for an obscure 20yo laptop's touchpad?

already installed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Had this exact scenario with an old flatbed scanner. No win10 drivers and it never had mac drivers. Ran without issue in up to date Mint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually once recently I had problems because the wifi driver (b43) for the Dell Latitude D505 (2004) wasn't in the live Boot environment (cause un-free).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

huh. Did you end up using a ethernet cable then?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

there is nothing to do

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Old Linux software usually has to be completed from source anyway (uhh the effort) which essentially makes it future proof

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it’s a même but Linux isn’t that good for running old app that have a user interface. Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

windows make it available to everyone.

It’s one of the few things windows does better, might as well recognize it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

No. I'm comfortable with command line tools, and I'm far from being a developer. People used DOS etc. as well without being developers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Well, unfortunately there are sw inside windows that are even older