Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future (www.phoronix.com)

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There was recently a mini DebConf in Cambridge where the Debian GNU/Linux release team held a spring and figured out some items moving forward, including the dim future for i386 moving forward.

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[-] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 10 months ago

This sounds bad for the permacomputing community. It’s not just Debian but the kernel that will drop i386 support. Is linux getting too fat?

BTW, the linked article is in Cloudflare’s walled-garden. This link is usable to more people:

http://web.archive.org/web/20231226191452/www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Plans-Cease-i386

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