#i386 machines running #Debian 12 Bookworm (blahaj.zone)

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#i386 machines running #Debian 12 Bookworm

Debian 13 drops support for i386, which is bad news for my parents' laptops. I don't have the time to help them hop on a different distro right now, but I wonder if anybody here is in the same boat.

@VoidLinux@chaos.social and @alpinelinux@fosstodon.org, my two faves, still offer support. FreeBSD demoted i386 to tier 2 in 2021. What else is out there?

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[-] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Just stick with bookworm? It'll have LTS support until 2033. Though you really should consider replacing hardware that old.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 hours ago

My father had given my grandma a 486 (or maybe even 386) laptop with Windows 3.11 when that was already severely outdated. As a result I can now listen to her memoirs because she was able to type them up in Word.

What I want to say is, if the machine is working for them just leave it be. Especially with the LTS.

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