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Posted Aug 31, 2024 20:32 UTC (Sat) by jgg (subscriber, #55211)
In reply to: Unmerged toy by corbet
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out

That's for the feedback John. It is admittedly hard to know where colourful language stops being entertaining and people are offended. For instance down below someone was calling m68k/etc a "museum architecture" which is a phrase I've seen many times before. It seems like a popular and accurate term to describe it, yet I would also think that is dismissive to the consistent work Geert and others put in.

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Posted Sep 2, 2024 7:34 UTC (Mon) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (1 responses)

Feel free to popularize a different term to describe such architectures. We do need a term for the situation where the effort of supporting an architecture (across the entire project, so including the costs of vetoing changes that would benefit other architectures) exceeds the practical benefits of being able to run the latest kernels on machines of that architecture.

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Posted Sep 6, 2024 7:36 UTC (Fri) by da4089 (subscriber, #1195) [Link]

> Feel free to popularize a different term to describe such architectures.

"Heritage" is the usual respectful euphemism, I think?