I have a dual pentium pro 200 that runs gentoo and openbsd, but rust doesn't ship i586 binaries, only i686+. So I would need to compile on a separate computer to use any software that is using rust.
There is already an initrd package tool I can't use since it is rust based, but I don't use initrd on that machine so it is not a problem so far.
The computer runs modern linux just fine, I just wish the rust team would at least release an "i386" boostrap binary that actually works on all i386 like all of the other compilers.
"We don't care about retro computers" is not a good argument imho, especially when there is an easy fix. It was the same when the Xorg project patched out support for RAMDAC and obsoleted a bunch of drivers instead of fixing it easily. I had to fix the S3 driver myself to be able to use my S3 trio 64v+ with a new Xorg server.
There is already an initrd package tool I can't use since it is rust based, but I don't use initrd on that machine so it is not a problem so far.
The computer runs modern linux just fine, I just wish the rust team would at least release an "i386" boostrap binary that actually works on all i386 like all of the other compilers.
"We don't care about retro computers" is not a good argument imho, especially when there is an easy fix. It was the same when the Xorg project patched out support for RAMDAC and obsoleted a bunch of drivers instead of fixing it easily. I had to fix the S3 driver myself to be able to use my S3 trio 64v+ with a new Xorg server.
/rant off