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

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, at 3:48 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 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.

Well, as it happens I just did that!  But I didn't have any problems...

Details:
I recently was given an old IBM ThinkPad T60 1953 with an Intel Core Duo (Yonah) 32-bit processor. Vintage c 2006.  Output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" is attached.

First I tried booting the Debian 10.7.0 (Buster) amd64 Live DVD.  It said I didn't have the right kind of processor, and I should try the i386 version.  So I did.  It booted fine and ran a couple of simple commands without incident.  Then I rebooted and ran the installer from the same DVD.  Again, no problem installing a system without GUI.  I then ran tasksel and used it to install the Cinnamon desktop, which is working great.

I'll file an installation report soon.  After that, I guess I'll try installing Bullseye and file a report on it.

Does anybody know if there's an i386 Live DVD for Bullseye?

Thanks for all your work!
Rick

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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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