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Re: differences among amd64 and i386

From Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: differences among amd64 and i386
Date 2023-12-17 01:50 +0100
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On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 18:19 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge
> 
> Instruction set x86-64
> Instructions    x86, x86-64
> 
> You could run amd64 on this machine.  Right now, you have a choice
> between the two, but some distributions have already dropped support
> for i386.  amd64 would be the more future-proof choice.

Just announced today [1] it looks like Debian will drop i386 installs
for the next release.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html

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Tixy

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differences among amd64 and i386 fuf <fuflono@gmail.com> - 2023-12-14 23:20 +0100
  Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-12-15 00:20 +0100
  Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2023-12-15 00:20 +0100
  Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-15 00:30 +0100
    Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-12-15 15:40 +0100
      Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2023-12-15 20:10 +0100
    Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-12-17 01:50 +0100
      Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-12-17 12:20 +0100
        Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-12-17 13:10 +0100
  Re: differences among amd64 and i386 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-12-15 00:40 +0100
    Re: differences among amd64 and i386 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-12-15 08:50 +0100
  Re: differences among amd64 and i386 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-12-15 13:20 +0100

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