[GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux

[Thad Ward]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:36AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

>You can still use a modern kernel with really old hardware. You just
>need to strip everything you're not going to use (so, just about
>everything), and optionally enable stuff like "optimize for size".
>Yanking out a lot of enabled-by-default stuff would also help.

I think that depends on the hardware. Drivers for different pieces of old
hardware could be buggy in newer kernels due to lack of testing, or
just be omitted entirely due to being broken and/or unmaintained.