Comment Vintage (Score 1) 364
Ideally, apps should be better and better coded, so that a newer version compiled witout the newer bloat is faster than the old version.
In the real world, vintage is all that matters. I think distros like Mandrake should continue to sell and improve the best of their historic versions. When they produce a good vintage, they should at least keep it available for dowload. One 'historic' distro for each two generation of processors seems a good balance to me. As a Pentium-120 owner, I am tired of being left in the dust.
As a side effect, this would allow to clearly taylor the latest version to the latest hardware, so everybody is happy. I am certain distro making would be much easier if there is a moving wall saying 'anything older than 3 years is not supported, for this we have version X-1.2 that works fine and has been updated with the recent goodies.'
Minh
In the real world, vintage is all that matters. I think distros like Mandrake should continue to sell and improve the best of their historic versions. When they produce a good vintage, they should at least keep it available for dowload. One 'historic' distro for each two generation of processors seems a good balance to me. As a Pentium-120 owner, I am tired of being left in the dust.
As a side effect, this would allow to clearly taylor the latest version to the latest hardware, so everybody is happy. I am certain distro making would be much easier if there is a moving wall saying 'anything older than 3 years is not supported, for this we have version X-1.2 that works fine and has been updated with the recent goodies.'
Minh
