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-Generally used to refer to old, unsupported systems (either
[Software] or
[Hardware]) although marketing seems to use it to refer to existing
systems made by
the competition...
.
+Any
[Software],
[Hardware], installation or [Protocol] which has been superseeded. Generally the older an organisation, the more legacy
systems they use, becuase
the cost of upgrading large organisations tends to be very high
.
-For example, [ISA] might be referred to as a legacy [Bus] standard.
+For example, [ISA] might be referred to as a legacy [Bus] standard and any [Linux] [Kernel] older than the current stable branch is a [Legacy] kernel. Working with legacy systems is frustrating becuase they have known problems which are trivially fixable (by upgrading), but there are non-techincal constraints preventing them from being fixed
.
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Also the name of a linux distribution... the older version of [Fedora] that are not "officially" supported - see FedoraLegacy
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