#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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[-] monnier@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

A possible option is to stick to Debian 13, but use a hand-built kernel, since Debian 13 still includes the i386 port. Of course, it also depends on your exact CPU and other hardware as well as what you want to run in it.

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