[plug] Linux and backwards compatibility

[Leon Brooks]

Oliver White wrote:
> Mike Holland wrote:
>> Amen. A consequence of feature-bloat, backwards compatibility, ...
> Just out of interest, what baggage is linux carrying? It has backward
> compatibility to the i386 architecture obviously.

Not so obviously. There are distros which won't run on less than a
Pentium, and some which are tailored for AMD K6-II, Pentium III etc.

> Is this problem
> entirely solved by being able to select the code you want to go into the
> kernel, when you configure?

Well, yes... building an Alpha, PowerPC or MIPS kernel does fix any
Intel compatibility issues... (-:

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