10 Feb
2021
10 Feb
'21
7:34 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 02:02:34PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:55:50PM -0800, John Gilmore
wrote:
> That was true decades ago, but no longer. In the intervening time, all
> the major Linux distributions have stopped releasing OS's that support
> 32-bit machines. Even those that support 32-bit CPUs have often
> desupported the earlier CPUs (like, what was wrong with the 80386?).
Um, John, it's 33mhz part. Who wants that?
So there is currently a *single* volunteer supporting
the 32-bit i386
platform for Debian, and in December 2020 there was an e-mail thread
asking whether there were volunteer resources to be able to provide
the necessary support (testing installers, building and testing
packages for security updates, etc.) for the 3.5 years of stable
support.
John is one damn good programmer, maybe he'll offer.
--lm