• tubbadu@lemmy.world
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      1 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.

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      1 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.

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        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.

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        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).

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

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      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.

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        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.