[Myrddin]

I have rescued old hardware for many years by putting Linux on as the OS when Windows ceased to support it. In the last year, many of my older hardware became obsolete as new Linux releases required a secure boot loader with UEFI only and would no longer boot a BIOS based image and boot loader. Fedora was the first to become unbootable. I switched to Ubuntu and that provided a delay, but ultimately the same occurred.

Around 2005, I had a specialized PC104 CPU where I ran a Debian OS on my railcars. Linux kernel code added a dependency on a new CPU instruction that was not supported by the SOC custom CPU on the Diamond Systems PC104 CPU board. I was locked into an old kernel. A change in administration occurred on January 20, 2009. The project was defunded upon the arrival of Obama. I sent the obsolete CPU boards back to the project office. The problem was overcome by events (election) and never resolved.

[Dr. Sivana]

I hadn’t known that new Linux releases REQUIRE UEFI. Heck, I remember it was controversial when Intel put a unique processor ID on 486 processors. Are there any new Linux releases that do not require UEFI? I thought that was mainly a MS thing.