I must admit, this has always had me flummoxed. The title says it all. What got me thinking about it again was Radky's thread for his great Dpup Stretch CE:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 590#974590
Notice in the beginning of his thread this:
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• k4.1.47-i686-pae for legacy hardware
• k4.9.68-i686-pae for recent hardware
I realize this question may be like trying to squeeze jello in your hands and not have any spill out, but is there some sort of guidelines a person (who comes to puppy or is a current user) could use to determine:
a) whether they have legacy and/or modern hardware, and:
b) exactly how to go about that (i.e. terminal commands, looking for hardware items, or graphics, or....????)?
I never know what stuff (which kernel of said offered pup or ddog) to run on the various hodge-podge of machines I own (some 5-6 yrs old, others 8-12 yrs old). It seems all a mystic guessing game to me. I'm sure some of you must be the same.
So what kind of guidelines could a person use to tell whether they should be using a pup that is offered with a kernel for legacy hardware vs a pup that is offered with a kernel for so-called "modern" (or recent) hardware. When I read, for example, a thread by Sage & he is yelling about his Eniac IBM blowing a vacuum tube, or Billtoo, constantly compiling some sort of new space-age driver for his Nvidia, I can't help but wonder we are in some sort of Never Ending wasteland here
Thus, can a "general" guideline be developed, as to just what are the deciding factors, or rankings of them, to determine this "legacy" vs "modern" hardware thing?
Let the squeezing of the jello begin