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#1 2023-12-16 18:42:56

yeti
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"A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news

Bits from the Release Team: Cambridge sprint update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a โ€ฆ 00003.html


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#2 2023-12-18 16:04:39

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Re: "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news

Great share, yeti. I wonder what the stats are on consumer *nix users on i386 processors nowadays. I only see them in niche cases anymore.

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#3 2023-12-19 09:51:17

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Re: "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news

Why turn them into trash?
I've Devuan on a Netbook.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD announced to treat 32bit PCs as 2nd class architectures too.
Great times for NetBSD... :-รž


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#4 2023-12-19 12:22:04

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Re: "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news

siva wrote:

I wonder what the stats are on consumer *nix users on i386 processors nowadays. I only see them in niche cases anymore.

Quite. But there are out there very capable only-32bits computers I think wrong to just trash. One example: my Qosmio

http://pedroreina.net/hardware/qosmio/

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#5 2023-12-19 14:23:01

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Re: "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news

Maybe devuan will try to support 32-bit long term.

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#6 2023-12-20 02:06:42

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Re: "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news

siva wrote:

Maybe devuan will try to support 32-bit long term.

I think that's too optimistic.
I want to be proven wrong.
I will not bet on this to happen.


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#7 2023-12-29 23:32:58

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Re: "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news

As of now the only thing that would need to be provided by a downstream distro is the kernel, as it seems. But time will tell how bad the damage will be, Trixie still hasn't even been released.


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