Linux 7.2 is cutting support for a 35-year-old card's driver because people aren't using it anymore
Linux 7.2 is discontinuing support for the RC Systems DoubleTalk PC ISA speech synthesizer driver due to its lack of usage. The driver has not seen significant updates since Linux 2.6 and has coding-style issues. Users of the hardware can still rely on an alternative driver that supports similar functionality.
- ▪The RC Systems DoubleTalk PC ISA speech synthesizer driver is being removed in Linux 7.2.
- ▪This driver has not received major updates since Linux 2.6 and has severe coding style issues.
- ▪An alternative driver is available for users of the same hardware, ensuring continued support.
XDA Developers files mainly under tech. We currently carry 1,061 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | XDA Developers |
| Canonical URL | https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-is-cutting-support-for-a-35-year-old-tech-because-people-probably-arent-using-it-anymore/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 04:54:32 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T04:57:36.192Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T04:57:36.192Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | tW2st15FEiYb |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": "1", "name": "Home", "item": "https://www.xda-developers.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position":"2", "name": "Linux", "item": "https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-hub/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position":"3", "name": "Linux 7.2 is cutting support for a 35-year-old card's driver because people aren't using it anymore", "item": "https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-is-cutting-support-for-a-35-year-old-tech-because-people-probably-arent-using-it-anymore/" } ] } Linux 7.2 is cutting support for a 35-year-old card's driver because people aren't using it anymore By Simon Batt Published May 25, 2026, 12:54 AM EDT Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at XDA Developers.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from XDA Developers
