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Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:42:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:42:37 +0200
> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386 
> > support you should probably look into contributing.
> 
> And how does one do that?
> 
> -- 
> Does anybody read signatures any more?
> 
> https://charlescurley.com
> https://charlescurley.com/blog/

If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware that you can press into service that 
isn't being used: pick up a Debian i386 disk and try reinstalling Debian.

If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware - get a copy of a Debian live CD and
boot it - you may face probelms if there isn't a lot of memory.

We *know*_ you can run 32 bit Debian on an AMD64 though without a lot of
obvious benefit - that's where some of the bigger packages like Boost and
Mozilla Firefox are having to be built these days.

If you read the thread over in debian-release / debian-cd lists, you 
should see what people are saying. There's possibly an option to keep a subset
of packages to allow for running 32 bit closed source stuff like games rather
than a full release.

Interestingly, the same points were made by Ben Hutchings five years ago now
when Debian dropped 586 support - https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00589.html
- they can only become more relevant with time. 

As the person who raised the question initially, I may go back to the lists
with a summary to see if there's any consistent way forward.

All best,

Andy C

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FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support  for 3 years? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 10:10 +0100
  Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 11:50 +0100
    Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term  support for 3 years? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 12:50 +0100
      Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
        Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term  support for 3 years? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-15 17:30 +0100
        Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support  for 3 years? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-16 01:00 +0100
          Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-16 09:20 +0100
      Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
        Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-21 12:50 +0100
          Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3          years? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-12-21 15:50 +0100
            Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-12-21 18:00 +0100
          Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-12-21 16:30 +0100
            Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-21 16:50 +0100
              Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3          years? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-12-22 01:30 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-22 12:40 +0100
              Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-26 23:50 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-27 12:10 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-27 17:00 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-27 23:20 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-28 02:50 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-27 19:20 +0100

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