On 12/03/2026 03:36, hahahahacker2009 wrote:
> Vào Thứ 4, 11 thg 3, 2026 vào lúc 19:19 Peter G.
> <[email protected]> đã viết:
>> this. the problem is also nonsensical. people scream "but we love CVS,
>> we used it for 29 years, we are never giving it up" but then at the same
>> time they say "all them links we had active for a decade dead? no
>> problem eh"
>>
>
> Is switching between VCS easier than writting a new drivers?
> Some say yes. But many say no.
>
> OpenBSD 7.8 removed support for ``legacy virtio'' which is still in use in
> qemu.
> And the ircnow.org machines are now stuck at 7.7 because we haven't got
> the ``modern virtio'' drivers for Plan 9.
> (And a web developer have to write a virtio 1.0 driver for Plan 9,
> which involves
> fixing interrupts, fixing ACPI, parsing AML, which Plan 9 never did before.)
>
> You simply don't know why people are so cautious on upgrading softwares,
> or moving from one to another.
>
but this argument only proves my point. don't cling to obsolete
software. don't rely on EOL (or close to EOL) solutions. manage and plan
projects better.
legacy virio wasnt dropped by surprise overnight. it was planned and
announced in advanced, wasn't it? somebody who relied on it just didn't
adjust for that.
look what FreeBSD does cutting of support for any version RELEASE minus
1. it makes people keep up with it.
