[tyfon]

The system is actually running fine standalone since I have been able to avoid rust software.

As to why it should cater to it, it's more that there is no need to remove something that already works just to remove it.

It is possible to compile rustc on another system so it supports i586 and below. Just a small change in the command line options. And it doesn't degrade the newer systems.

I have plenty of faster machines, I just enjoy not throwing things away or making odd systems work. It's called having fun :)

[cogman10]

> it's more that there is no need to remove something that already works just to remove it.

There actually is. Support for old systems isn't free. Mistakes in the past are hard to fix and verify on these old systems. Particularly, the fact that there's not a whole lot of devs with access to dual pentium pro systems to verify changes which would affect such systems.

That means that if there's a break in the kernel or elsewhere that ultimately impacts such system they'll hear from a random retro computing enthusiast which takes time from everyone to resolve and review patches to fix the retro computer.

Time is precious for open source software. It's in limited supply.

I get doing this for fun or the hell of it. But you do need to understand there are costs involved.