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@ -258,13 +258,14 @@ COMMITMENT TO LONG TERM STABILITY
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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;