• tubbadu
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      301 year ago

      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.

    • @Jumuta
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      181 year ago

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

      already installed

      • @[email protected]
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        51 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.

      • Aras
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        21 year ago

        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).

        • @Jumuta
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          31 year ago

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

          • Aras
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            11 year ago

            I used my phone to provide internet over usb (rndis).

    • Slartibartfast
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      91 year ago

      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]
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      21 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      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]
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        01 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.