From a539c8fd471a69214f836821f472408a38599d2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Hope Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:32:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] readme edits --- README.txt | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 1a40d96..a068a4c 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -258,13 +258,14 @@ COMMITMENT TO LONG TERM STABILITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The core mission of inxi is to always work on all systems all the time. Well, -all systems with the core tools inxi requires to operate installed. Ie, not -Android, yet. What this means is this: you can have a 10 year old box, or -probably 15, not sure, and you can install today's inxi on it, and it will run. -It won't run fast, but it will run. I test inxi on a 200 MHz laptop from about -1998 to keep it honest. That's also what was used to optimize the code at some -points, since differences appear as seconds, not 10ths or 100ths of seconds on -old systems like that. +all systems with the core tools inxi requires to operate installed. + +What this means is this: you can have a 10 year old box, or probably 15, not +sure, and you can install today's inxi on it, and it will run. It won't run +fast, but it will run. I test inxi on a 200 MHz laptop from about 1998 to +keep it honest. That's also what was used to optimize the code at some points, +since differences appear as seconds, not 10ths or 100ths of seconds on old +systems like that. inxi is being written, and tested, on Perl as old as 5.08, and will work on any system that runs Perl 5.08 or later. Pre 2.9.0 Gawk/Bash inxi will also run on @@ -376,9 +377,10 @@ BSD / UNIX BSD support is not as complete as GNU/Linux support due to the fact some of the data simply is not available, or is structured in a way that makes it unique to -each BSD. This fragmentation makes supporting BSDs far more difficult than it -should be in the 21st century. The BSD support in inxi is an ongoing process, -with more features being added as new data sources and types are discovered. +each BSD, or is difficult to process. This fragmentation makes supporting BSDs +far more difficult than it should be in the 21st century. The BSD support in +inxi is an ongoing process, with more features being added as new data sources +and types are discovered. Note that due to time/practicality constraints, in general, only the original BSD branches will be actively supported: FreeBSD+derived; OpenBSD+derived;