![]() ![]() LILO is such an important part of Linux history that it deserves a place is some kind of "hall of fame". It's sad to see that such a pinnacle piece of software contributing to Linux's success is going to be discontinued by the project's primary developer. That is not to say, though, that LILO didn't have benefits as well (and in some circumstances it still does). GRUB offered many new powerful features that certainly helped its adoption. It wasn't until around 1999-2000 (I think) that distros started replacing LILO with GRUB as the default bootloader. The current comments are mostly trolls and brain-dead idiocy. I'm well aware that modern CPUs are more efficient, and I could actually use modern mobos with more One of these mobos runs off a 80 W PicoPSU the others have heavy discrete GPUs, so they have semi-regular (though fanless) PSUs. The old ones have a similar TDP to modern laptop ones. ![]() I'm rather power conscious in general, and all of my machines, including these old ones, have "laptop" CPUs in small form factor mobos (if not actual laptops). I understand the general sentiment, I was kind of expecting this. Nowadays, you can easily power a magnitude more compute power with the same electrical power cost. I'd never encountered power supplies burning out (without a discrete graphics card) until I met those first gen 64s. If you recall that time in the 90's, those cpus were huge power hogs. Particularly if these are x86-64 machines that don't work with grub, suggesting that they were from around the first generation. You may have paid $30 for the machine itself, but you continue to pay every year for it in terms of power, maintenance, occupied space, and if your hobby time is limited, engineering time figuring out hacks to make it continue working. ![]()
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