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Mercury

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Registered: 2024-11-14

Posts: 28  

Devuan 6.0 has no 32-bit edition?

I did not find any announcement about this. Was 5.0 the last 32bit release?

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,407  

Re: Devuan 6.0 has no 32-bit edition?

Yes. Debian has dropped 32bit kernels with Trixie.

There are discussions on the forum about this.

Last edited by rolfie (Yesterday 16:41:32)

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,829  

Re: Devuan 6.0 has no 32-bit edition?

If you don't need proprietary firmware, you can use the linux-libre kernel:
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/l … sh.en.html

You can install that in a daedalus system and upgrade to excalibur, or upgrade first then install the new kernel.
You could instead create a new excalibur system in a chroot, install linux-libre and then convert it to a disk image.

abower

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Registered: 2024-04-19

Posts: 27  

Re: Devuan 6.0 has no 32-bit edition?

One thing to bear in mind is that the baseline of required x86 extensions is raised on 6.0 so some userspace packages that worked on 5.0 may be incompatible with 6.0. In my case that includes Firefox on one PC.