It works both way, too. Assuming you do not deploy systemd, you can install the very latest kernel, released two days ago, on a computer built in the 80s - long before pentium CPUs even existed, as well as almost the entirety of a modern distribution.
Using legacy repositories for specific XFree86 versions, this even includes supporting old displays - including monochrome ones.
I always thought it was pretty cool that Linux literally has software/utilities originally made in the 60's but it's still working/useful nowadays.
wellll, more like 80s-90s rewrites of those utilities
It works both way, too. Assuming you do not deploy systemd, you can install the very latest kernel, released two days ago, on a computer built in the 80s - long before pentium CPUs even existed, as well as almost the entirety of a modern distribution.
Using legacy repositories for specific XFree86 versions, this even includes supporting old displays - including monochrome ones.
Fwiw macOS has a lot of those too, it's based off BSD which is why it's frequently used for programming